Plutarch's lives
Subtitle: translated from the Greek, by several hands : in five volumes
Contributors: Dryden, John, 1631-1700; Duke, Richard, 1659?-1711, translator; Smallwood, James, active 1674-1685, translator; Chetwood, Knightly, 1650-1720, translator; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700, translator; Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700, translator; Johnson, Thomas, translator; Brown, Edward, translator; Payne, Mich., translator; Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694, translator; Caryll, John, 1625-1711, translator; Touroude, Michael, illustrator; Banck, Pieter van der, 1649-1697, engraver; Burghers, Michael, 1647 or 1648-1727, engraver; Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller; Everingham, Robert, printer
Publisher: printed by R.E. for Jacob Tonson, at Grays-Inn Gate in Grays-Inn Lane
Published: 1700
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 652
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Biography; Greek literature; Translations into English
Other titles: Vitae parallelae
Work titles: Lives. Vol. I.
Notes: The "Epistle dedicatory" signed: John Dryden

Frontispiece plate signed "Touroude del. Vandrebanc fe."; other plates signed by M. Burghers

Text and register are continuous despite pagination

With a final advertisement leaf.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R217666

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), P2635C

Gift; Desmond Fitzgerald; 2018.
Table of contents: title: To his Grace the Duke of Ormond, &c. / John Dryden; title: The life of Plutarch / written by Mr. Dryden; title: The life of Theseus / English'd from the Greek by R. Duke, Trin. Coll. Cant. soc.; title: The life of Romulus /  English'd from the Greek by  Mr. James Smallwood, fel. of Trin. Col. in Cambridge; title: The life of Lycurgus / translated from the Greek of Plutarch by Knightly Chetwood, fellow of Kings' College in Cambridge; title: The life of Numa Pompilius /  English'd from the Greek by Paul Rycaut; title: The life of Solon / translated from the Greek by Thomas Creech, of Wadh. Coll. Oxon.; title: The life of Poplicola /  translated from the Greek by Thomas Johnson, A.M.; title: The life of Themistocles the Athenian / translated out of the Greek by Edward Brown, M.D.; title: The life of F. Camillus /  English'd from the Greek by Mich. Payne, Trin. Coll. Cant. soc.; title: The life of Pericles /  translated from the Greek by Adam Littleton, D.D.; title: The life of Fabius M. / English'd from the Greek by John Caryl, esq.