Title: The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes /
Authors: Plutarch; North, Thomas,; Amyot, Jacques,; Acciaiuoli, Donato,; Goulart, Simon,; Vautrollier, Thomas,; North, Thomas,; Amyot, Jacques,; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress); Thordarson Collection
Date: 1579
Publisher: Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier and Iohn Wight.
Physical description: [14], 1175 p. : port. ; 33 x 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: Theseus -- Romulus -- Lycurgus -- Numa Pompilius -- Solon -- Publicola -- Themistocles -- Furius Camillus -- Pericles -- Fabius Maximus -- Alcibiades -- Coriolanus -- Paulus Aemylius -- Timoleon -- Pelopidas -- Marcellus -- Aristides -- Marcus Cato -- Philopoemen -- T.Q. Flaminius -- Pyrrus -- Caius Marius -- Lysander -- Sylla -- Cimon -- Lucullus -- Nicias -- Marcus Crassus -- Sertorius -- Eumenes -- Agesilaus -- Pompeius -- Alexander -- Julius Caesar -- Phocion -- Cato Utican -- Agis & Cleomenes -- Tiberius and Caius Gracchi -- Demosthenes -- Cicero -- Demetrius -- Antonius -- Artaxerxes -- Dion -- Marcus Brutus -- Aratus -- Galba -- Otho -- [H]Annibal -- Scipio Africanus.
Notes: Head-pieces (with inlaid portraits) tail-pieces, initials. Contains "The lives of Annibal and Scipio African (attributed to Donato Acciajuoli) translated into French by Charles de la Sluce, and Englished by Thomas North" (p. 1131-1172) and "The comparison of Annibal with P. Scipio African" (p. 1173-1175) by Simon Goulart. Later editions contain still further interpolations. First edition of the translation of Thomas North.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biography; Bookbinding--Specimens--Rivière.; Greece--Biography; Rome--Biography