PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes... translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot... and out of French into English by Thomas North. London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1579. Printer's device on title and woodcut medallion portraits heading each chapter. Folio, brown levant morocco, g.e., by RIVIERE, some rubbing to joints, upper joint starting; lacks blank (*8), portions of some blank margins restored, few early marginalia (some cropped by binder), some browning, a few insignificant rust spots and paper flaws. FIRST EDITION. STC20065.

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PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes... translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot... and out of French into English by Thomas North. London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1579. Printer's device on title and woodcut medallion portraits heading each chapter. Folio, brown levant morocco, g.e., by RIVIERE, some rubbing to joints, upper joint starting; lacks blank (*8), portions of some blank margins restored, few early marginalia (some cropped by binder), some browning, a few insignificant rust spots and paper flaws. FIRST EDITION. STC20065.
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Robert Vaughan, signature on title and bookplate; E. Hubert Lichfield, bookplate; Louis H. Silver bookplate.

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