Four chapters of North's Plutarch
Subtitle: containing the lives of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius and Marcus Brutus as sources to Shakespeare's tragedies Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and partly to Hamlet and Timon of Athens : photolithographed in the size of the original edition of 1595 : with preface, notes comparing the text of the editions of 1579, 1595 and 1603 and reference-notes to the text of the tragedies of Shakespeare
By: edited by F. A. Leo.
Contributors: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Leo, F. A. 1820-1898.
Publisher: Trübner & Co.; Karl I. Trübner
Published: 1878
Place of publication: London; Strassburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1073
Subjects: Plutarch -- Translations, English.; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sources.; Rome -- Biography; Greece -- Biography
Genres: Sources.; Biography
Other titles: North's Plutarch.
Work titles: Lives.
Notes: "Corrigenda" inserted after t.p.

"Indicator of lines" laid in.

Each "life" has half-title with portrait (taken from headpieces).

The facsims., "photolithographed in the size of the original edition" and including original t.p., are reproduced from "The lives of the noble Grecianes and Romanes ... by ... Plutarke of Chaeronea: translated ... by Thomas North.  London, Imprinted by R. Field for B. Norton, 1595."

"Reference-notes showing the conformity of text between [the Globe ed. of]  Shakespeare & [the 1595 ed. of North's] Plutarch": p. [11-17]

Gift to Victoria University Library. Hunter, John Howard.

Victoria University Library copy originally part of the library's Hunter Collection.