The lives of the noble Grecians & Romans, . compared together, by that grave learned philosopher & historiographer Plutarch of Chæronea.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3092279
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], add. t.-pl., [12], 104, 109-443, 446-798, 797-1030, [62], 1-91, [1] p. . ill..,ports.. . fol... Provenance: Inscribed in ink on front pastedown: 'JSimpson', and in another hand: 'Isabella Twisden given me by my father'. Inscriptions in ink on front free-endpaper: 'Elizabeth Warner', and 'Nemo ante obitum ??'. Inscribed in ink on added engraved t.-pl. 'Isa Twisden 1727'. - Some pencil markings. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, gold-decorated spine, spine-label blind-lettered. Boards detached.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120) Jacques Amyot, (1513 - 1593), Bishop of Auxerre George Gerbier D'Ouvilly Sir Thomas North (1535-1601) André Thevet (1502-1590)