Plutarch's Lives in six volumes
By: translated from the Greek, with explanatory and critical notes from Dacier and others ; and a complete index, to which is prefixed The life of Plutarch, by Mr. Dryden
Contributors: Dacier, André, 1651-1722; Dryden, John, 1631-1700; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Alexander Donaldson, sold at his shop ... London, and at Edinburgh
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Classical biography
Work titles: Lives
Notes: LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

With: Plutarch. [Works. Latin & Greek. 1572] Ploutarchou Chairōneōs ta sōzomena syngrammata = Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera, cum Latine interpretatione ... [Geneva, Switzerland?] : Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, anno MDLXXII [1572].  Issued separately.  The text of the Lives are interleaved with that of the Latin translation, and with that of the English translation and bound into 21 volumes.  The spines are labelled 1-13 and 1-8.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the Lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 69

ESTC T206561

LC copy is initialled by Thomas Jefferson at signatures I and T in several volumes. Has inscription: Ex libris Jno. Taylor.