Plutarch.

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Description

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes... translated... by Thomas North. London: Richard Field for Bonham Norton, 1595

folio in 6s, second edition in English, publisher's device on title page, headpieces composed of woodcut portraits within printer's ornaments, contemporary markings and annotations, mottled calf with gilt dog-tooth roll border and central compartment with fleurons, spine with five gilt-tooled compartments and one compartment with red morocco lettering-piece, sprinkled edges, inside dentelles, lacking Yyy3-4 and one blank preliminary leaf (*8), title page mounted, tears at H1 and Vv3 with loss of a few words, marginal tears at Yy4 and Sss6, some soiling and light staining

Provenance

Thomas Lambert ("pretium 17s 6d"), ownership inscription; John Hunt, ownership inscription; Lord Wardington, bookplate

Literature

STC 20067

Catalogue Note

"...Stories are fit for every place, reach to all persons, serve for all time, teach the living, revive the dead..." (To the Reader)

shakespeare's major source for his roman plays, translated by North from the French of Jacques Amyot. Plutarch's Parallel Lives was among the most widely read Classical works in the Renaissance.