The Republic. Translated Out of the Greek by Benjamin Jowett with his Introduction Analyses and Summary and With Medallions Cut On Wood by Fritz Kredel

Plato; Benjamim Jowett (translated by). The Republic. Translated Out of the Greek by Benjamin Jowett with his Introduction Analyses and Summary and With Medallions Cut On Wood by Fritz Kredel. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1980. Collector’s Edition. Quarto. (ix), [4], 622 pp. Black leather with gilt decorative pattern on covers. Gilt lettering and decorative pattern and raised bands on spine. Decorative cloth end papers. Bookplate laid in at interior front. Cloth book mark bound in.

“Benjamin Jowett first issued this translation in 1870. In this edition, Professor Jowett enlarged his introductory remarks, and supplied many pages of “analyses.” Illustrated with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel which embellish the beginnings of the various sections of this edition. “His medallions contain symbolic portraits of the figures which dominate The Republic.”

Binding and interior in near fine to fine condition overall. near fine to fine. Hardcover. (45477) $45