The lives of the noble Grecians & Romanes
By: compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea. Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North: the illustrations by T.L. Poulton: with the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603
Contributors: Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Poulton, T. L. (Tom L.)
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Published: 1929
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography
Work titles: Lives
Notes: "This edition of North's translation Amyot's French version of Plutarch's Lives is printed from the first edition (1579) with the addition of 15 lives from the third edition (1603). It is limited to 1050 copies for sale in England and 500 copies for sale in the United States of America by Random house. The text has been printed by Bishop and Garrett and William Brendon and sons in Monotype Fournier; the illustrations, by T.L. Poulton, have been printed by the Curwen press: the whole on Arches paper."