Plutarch

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared together by that great learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea. (Trans. James Amyot and Thomas North). London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1579
paper, ink, leather

Folio (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.; 315 x 210 mm). Large woodcut device on title and another at end [McKerrow 170, 179], medallion portraits within ornamental borders in the text, a few light stains, lower outer corner of title, Nnn4 and final leaf restored, affecting text at Nnn4 and colophon, supplied in manuscript facsimile, slight worming affecting text of some leaves towards the end, a few minor tears. Contemporary blind-stamped calf gilt, joints skilfully repaired but upper joint cracking,

Provenance

Belton House (bookplate) — John L. Brownlowe, Baron of Charleville (bookplate) — George Goyder (bookplate)

Literature

STC 20065; Pforzheimer 801

Catalogue Note

First edition of this translation - the Brownlowe-Goyder copy.