The Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romanes
Subtitle: Compared together by that graue learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea
By: Translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot, Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of the Kings priuy counsel, and great Amner of Fraunce, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North
Contributors: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?, translator; Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628
Publisher: Imprinted ... by Thomas Vautroullier dvvelling in the Blacke Friers by Ludgate
Published: 1579
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1175
Subjects: Biography
Notes: First edition of this translation, with "Vautroullier" imprint.

Signatures: *⁶, 1 leaf unsigned, A-Z⁶, AA-ZZ⁶, AAA-ZZZ⁶, AAAA-ZZZZ⁶, AAAAA-FFFFF⁶ (FF₂, DDDD₂, incorrectly signed EE₂, DDD₂, respectively).

Pages 69, 592, 625-626, 845, 916 incorrectly numbered 67, 562, 621-622, 844, 616, respectively.

Headpieces (with inlaid portraits), tailpieces, initials. Marginal notes.

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.

Colophon: Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier, dvveling in the Blacke Friers by Ludgate.

Two manuscript notes regarding the book inlaid in front. Autographs of John Offley, friend of Izaak Walton and former owner of this copy, inlaid at end.

The N.Q. Pope-White copy.

Bound in red morocco, gold tooled, gilt edges, by Alfred Matthews.

STC (2nd ed.) 20065.