Plutarch
The Parallel Lives
The Dryden translation, revised by A. H. Clough
What this is
Greek and Roman lives set in pairs so each throws light on the other, written around AD 100 by a priest of Apollo at Delphi who said he was writing lives and not histories, because a jest or a phrase often shows a character better than a battle with ten thousand dead. Shakespeare took three plays straight out of it.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.