Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines . . . Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot . . . and out of French into English, By Sir Thomas North Knight. Woodcut divisional headpieces throughout consisting of medallion portraits within varying ornamental borders. [14] (of [16]), 1175, [1] pages; lacks initial blank. Folio, 313x206 mm, 17th-century calf with later Camperdown Library gilt device added on covers, rebacked retaining early 18th-century gilt-tooled backstrip, rear joint cracked; some browning, dampstaining in gutters and restoration in blank outer corners at beginning and end, scattered stains elsewhere, title heavily soiled, rust holes in blank outer margin of last several leaves partly repaired, some other minor holes and tears not impairing legibility. London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1579

Additional Details

first edition of North's translation, the first complete version in English and an important source for Shakespeare's Roman plays. Hoffmann III, 224; Pforzheimer 801 (issue with imprint of Vautroullier and John Wight); STC 20065 (this issue, with imprint omitting Wight's name).