The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes /
compared together by that grave learned philosopher & historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea: translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North. Decorated by Thomas Lowinsky.
Description
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English
- Published
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Stratford-upon-Avon : printed at the Shakespeare Head press and pub. for the press by Houghton Mifflin company, Boston and New York, 1928.
- Note
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An edition of 500 copies.
Vol. 6 has half-title only.
Vol. 8 has title: The lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysivs the elder, and of Octavivs Cæsar Avgvstvs: collected ovt of goot avthors. Also the lives of nine excellent chieftaines of warre, taken ovt of Latine from Emylivs Probvs, by S. G. S. [Simon Goulart of Senlis] by whom also are added the lives of Plvtarch and of Seneca; gathered together, disposed, and enriched as the others. And now translated into English by Sir Thomas North ...
Includes "The lives of Annibal and Scipio African [attributed to Donato Acciajuoli] translated into French by Charles de la Slvce and Englished by Thomas North": v. 7, p. [293]-396, and "The comparison of Annibal with P. Scipio African", by Simon Goulart: v. 7, p. [397]-401.
This edition of North's Plutarch, v. 1-7, is a close repint of the 1st edition, published in folio in 1579; v. 8 contains the additional lives which appeared as pt. 2 in the edition of 1603.
Head-pieces (with portraits)
- Physical Description
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8 v. :
fronts. ;
24 cm
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