Plutarch’s Lives
The case, drawn to the house design.
Plutarch’s Lives
Twelve lives of lawgivers, generals and statesmen, from Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens to Caesar, Cicero and Brutus.
- Status
- Typeset the text, margins and prompts are set; printing follows title by title.
- Grade
- Grade 9 in our sequence; often taught in grades 7–12
- First published
- c. AD 100
- This edition
- Twelve Lives in the Dryden translation revised by A. H. Clough: Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Pericles, Fabius, Alcibiades, Marcus Cato, Alexander, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Cicero and Marcus Brutus. The Comparisons are omitted.
- Pages
- 482 as typeset
- Prompts
- 12, one at the close of each Life
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every Life of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt: an observation, one real question, and something for the pen to do.
Commonplace
Sparta ate at a common table, used iron money too heavy to hoard, and carried its puny infants to a chasm under Taygetus. One man ordered all three, then starved himself so the laws would stand. List what was good in this city, then what it cost and who paid.
At the close of the Life of Lycurgus, Plutarch’s Lives.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
Every title is set to the house page and planned to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages482 as typeset
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, 120 gsm
- EndpapersPrinted, with different art at front and back
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond, with a ruled column in the outer margin and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts12, one at the close of each Life
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio