PLATO.

The Republic of Plato. Translated into English, with an Analysis and Notes, by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan.

Engraved vignette of Sophocles and Plato to title page. Third edition. Small 8vo. xxxii, 370 pp. Contemporary straight grain red morocco by Hawes of Cambridge, spines with five single raised bands outlined gilt, second panel lettered in gilt, the rest with gilt fleuron devices, covers elaborately panelled in gilt with greek-key roll-tooling, green endpapers, all edges in gilt (lengthy inscription to front fly leaf in an early hand, minor spotting to endpapers; spine somewhat rubbed, front joint chipped at foot). Cambridge, Printed at the University Press for Macmillan and Co, 1866.

£500.00
PLATO.
The Republic of Plato. Translated into English, with an Analysis and Notes, by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan.

A pretty copy of this English edition of Plato’s Republic, one of the great classics of the Western philosophical tradition. Reprinted from the 1852 translation by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan, two classics professors at Cambridge University, this edition was the most popular English rendering of the Republic until the appearance of Benjamin Jowett’s translations of Plato’s complete works late in the nineteenth-century.

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