"THE GERM OF ALL IDEAS CAN BE FOUND IN PLATO": PLATO'S DIALOGUES, HANDSOMELY BOUND

PLATO (JOWETT, Benjamin, translator). The Dialogues of Plato. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. Five volumes. Octavo, contemporary full cream vellum, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. Housed together in a custom slipcase. $4000.

Third edition of Jowett's esteemed translation of Plato, very handsomely bound in full vellum by Maurin.

Plato's Dialogues "are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement. While nowhere is a definite system laid down, it has been truly said that the germ of all ideas can be found in Plato" (PMM 27). This translation by Oxford don Benjamin Jowett, one of the great classicists of the 19th century, is held in highest regard. Jowett's translation of Plato first appeared in 1871. With an introduction by Raphael Demos, a famous Greek-American philosopher and professor at Harvard. With errata slip in Volume V. Bookplates. Small bookseller ticket. Gift inscription.

Interiors fine, vellum bindings lovely, with expert repairs to one joint and a few spine labels.