The Lives Of The Nobel Grecians And Romaines, Compared Together By That Grave Learned Philosopher And Historiographer Plutarch Of Chaeronea Plutarch; North, Sir Thomas Translator

Folio, 1244pp plus table. A good copy in contemporary calf rebacked with most of the spine preserved, new end papers. Some staining and to the upper part of the text, generally at the end with an archival repair to the head of the title page. Illustrated with portraits throughout. The work - he Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Caesar Augustus: Collected out of Good Authors, comprises the second part of the volume. An early English translation, the 1595 edition is said to be a Shakespeare source.