1822 Plutarch's Lives: Volume I, II, IV, V, VII and VIII

Plutarch's Lives," a collection of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch, a Greek historian and biographer who lived in the first and second centuries AD. This edition, translated from the original Greek, was published in New York in 1822. Full leather binding. All covers show scuffing wear. Corners bumped and worn. Volume IV hinges holding firm. However, the other volumes are not. Can be restored by professional. Foxing to extremities of textblock, interior pages generally clean. Plutarch's Lives: Volume I, II, IV, V, VII and VIII (missing Vol. III)PlutarchJohn and William Langhorne, translators Hickman and Hazzard, 1822Books belonged to William Walker Jr. (Wyandot) who was born in 1800 and lived until 1874. His mother was from an influential Wyandot family, and his father was a white man. He went to a mission school in Ohio and then to Kenyan College. He was a slave-holder but served the Union during the Civil War.