Plutarch. The fifth and last volume of Plutarch's Lives· : Translated from the Greek by several hands

Folger bibliographic ID: 144705
ESTC number: R220547
Wing number: P2640A
Folger call number: P2635E v.5
Folger holdings ID: 145865

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

With an engraved frontispiece (plate), signed: Ingraven by MBurgesses, i.e. M. Burghers The portraits, with the exception of two unsigned, are also signed by Burghers With a final advertisement leaf. It has catchword "The" on verso, but copies seen do not have any additional leaves

Item information about Folger P2635E v.5

Dobell. Panelled calf binding with gilt tooled spine panels and marbled endpapers; manuscript divisional titles on top fore-edge. Large paper copy? Lacking all leaves after 3C5. Provenance: inscriptions on front fly-leaf: "To / Bernd: [Bernard] Mould / of Smyrna / Ap: 5. 1719."; "Bernard Mould / To Mary Berners / 1742."; "Henry Morse 1750"; From the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell

Uniform title: Lives. English. Vol. V
Extended title: The fifth and last volume of Plutarch's Lives· : Translated from the Greek by several hands
Alternate titles: Vitae parallelae

Greece Rome Plutarch

author: Plutarch
subject: Plutarch
printmaker: Burghers, Michael, 1647 or 1648-1727
former owner: Dobell, Percy John, 1871-1956