PLATO (?427-347 B.C.). The Works ... viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues and Twelve Epistles, translated from the Greek, translated by Floyer Sydenham and Thomas Taylor, London: for Thomas Taylor, by R. Wilks and sold by E. Jeffery and R. H. Evans, 1804. 5 volumes, 4° (290 x 240mm). Half titles, one folding engraved plate. (Occasional light spotting, upper margin of b1 in vol. I with closed tear, lower corner of 2 gatherings in vol. V creased.) Contemporary calf, blind-stamped border surrounded by gilt double fillet border, spines decorated gilt with floral motifs, contrasting leather lettering-pieces, marbled edges (head of spine of vols. I & IV chipped, front joints of vol. V cracked but firmly holding, extremities rubbed).