The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amiot, abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of the Kings priuie counsell, and great Amner of France, and out of French into English, by Thomas North.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1595
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3102092
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14],865,862-889,900-1173,[29]p. : ports. (woodcuts) ; fol. Imperfect: wanting initial blank. Seventeenth-century marginalia throughout, particularly on first 70pp. Shelf mark label: Case D Shelf 3. [i.e.: a Lyme Park book]. Provenance: manuscript inscription [seventeenth-century] on final printed leaf, partially wanting: Henry Bradshaw[?]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119). Binding: seventeenth-century full calf blind ruled and tooled to form two panels; blind cetrepiece; rebacked, apine entirely replaced; red spine label: Plutarch's Lives; Nineteenth-century gilt crest on spine: Ram's head [i.e.: a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120) Donato Acciaiuoli (1429 - 1478) Sir Thomas North (1535-1601)