Plutarch's morals: . translated from the Greek by several hands.
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)
Category
Books
Date
1691
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3127029
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plates . ports.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Seventeenth-century inscription on v.1 pastedown, partly scratched out: Sam. Corker, with price paid. Seventeenth-century pressmarks and other notes on endpapers. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Seventeenth-century full mottled calf over boards; blind fillets and tools to form a border and centrepiece; blind armorial centrepiece stamps of the Bagot family, with baron's coronet; black spine label; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Plutarch (c.46 - c.120)