Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
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]), 1103, [1]; [4], 136, [29] pages; lacks initial blank. Folio, 287x200 mm, modern 1/4 calf; margins trimmed not affecting text, preliminaries possibly supplied from another copy, title lightly soiled, blank lower portion of last leaf restored. Signatures of G. Phipson dated 1869. London: Richard Field for George Bishop, 1603

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Third edition of North's translation, the first complete version in English, originally published in 1579. Hoffmann III, 224; STC 20068.