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Plutarch.
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Description
- Plutarch.
Les vies des hommes illustres, Grecs et Romains (translated by Jacques Amyot). Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1567, 6 volumes, woodcut initials and headpieces, title-page of volume 2 repaired, a few other small paper repairs
Provenance
Méry sieur de Vic, monogram; Trotter of Mortonhall, Edinburgh, armorial bookplate; A.L. McLaughlin, bookplate (sale Sotheby's Monaco, 8 October 1980, lot 1927)
Literature
cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 441 & 442 (for Vascosan's first editions of Amyot's translations)
Catalogue Note
"A unique contribution to French literature, this work established Amyot as a scholar and stylist ranking with Rabelais and Montaigne" (Mortimer, p.548).