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Creator
Date
1929-1930
Location
London,
England
Great Britain
Great Britain
Media format
Printed text
Extent
5 v.
Language
English
Size
32 cm
Genre
Commentary
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 1455
Folger call number: PA4374 .V2 1929
Folger holdings ID: 1490
Folger call number: PA4374 .V2 1929
Folger holdings ID: 1490
Notes
General notes
"This edition of North's translation Amyot's French version of Plutarch's Lives is printed from the first edition (1579) with the addition of 15 lives from the third edition (1603). It is limited to 1050 copies for sale in England and 500 copies for sale in the United States of America by Random house. The text has been printed by Bishop and Garrett and William Brendon and sons in Monotype Fournier; the illustrations, by T. L. Poulton, have been printed by the Curwen press: the whole on Arches paper." Title vignette
Also known as
Uniform title: Lives. English
Extended title: The lives of the noble Grecians & Romanes / compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea. Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North: the illustrations by T. L. Poulton: with the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603
Extended title: The lives of the noble Grecians & Romanes / compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea. Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North: the illustrations by T. L. Poulton: with the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603
Related names
author: Plutarch
associated with: Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593
associated with: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?
associated with: Poulton, T. L. (Tom L.)
associated with: Nonesuch Press
associated with: Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593
associated with: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?
associated with: Poulton, T. L. (Tom L.)
associated with: Nonesuch Press