Plutarch; trans. Thomas North (1535-1601?) The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romaines.
London: Imprinted by Richard Field for Thomas Wight, 1603.
Folio, third edition of North's English translation (first published in 1579); woodcut printer's device to title page; illustrated throughout with text woodcut medallion portraits of each biographical subject, each surrounded by a woodcut vignette; ex libris G. Phipson with his signature dated 1869 to title and front free endleaf; blank bottom third of final leaf of the table trimmed away and repaired; lacking first and last blanks; bound in modern half calf and buckram boards; margins trimmed a bit close; slight occasional water stains; 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
STC 20068; ESTC S105931.
Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.
