North's Plutarch (1603)
PLUTARCH (45-120)
NORTH, Sir Thomas (1535-1604, Translator into English)
AMYOT, Jacques (1513-1593, Translator into French)
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Translated by Sir Thomas North. London: Richard Field for Thomas Wight, 1603.
Jacques Amyot initially translated Plutarch from Latin into French, and Thomas North then translated the text from French into English. North was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, to whom he dedicated this third edition of his Lives in 1603.
North's Plutarch served as the main source for Shakespeare's Roman Plays – Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, and Coriolanus – as well as Timon of Athens and the Theseus and Hippolyta plot in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
North's translation of The Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Cæsar Augustus is included here as well, with a seperate title-page.
Folio. Modern quarter calf. Lacking one leaf in the first signature. Ownership inscription “G. Phipson 1689”
References: STC 20068; ESTC S105931
PLUTARCH (45-120)
NORTH, Sir Thomas (1535-1604, Translator into English)
AMYOT, Jacques (1513-1593, Translator into French)
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Translated by Sir Thomas North. London: Richard Field for Thomas Wight, 1603.
Jacques Amyot initially translated Plutarch from Latin into French, and Thomas North then translated the text from French into English. North was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, to whom he dedicated this third edition of his Lives in 1603.
North's Plutarch served as the main source for Shakespeare's Roman Plays – Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, and Coriolanus – as well as Timon of Athens and the Theseus and Hippolyta plot in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
North's translation of The Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Cæsar Augustus is included here as well, with a seperate title-page.
Folio. Modern quarter calf. Lacking one leaf in the first signature. Ownership inscription “G. Phipson 1689”
References: STC 20068; ESTC S105931
PLUTARCH (45-120)
NORTH, Sir Thomas (1535-1604, Translator into English)
AMYOT, Jacques (1513-1593, Translator into French)
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Translated by Sir Thomas North. London: Richard Field for Thomas Wight, 1603.
Jacques Amyot initially translated Plutarch from Latin into French, and Thomas North then translated the text from French into English. North was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, to whom he dedicated this third edition of his Lives in 1603.
North's Plutarch served as the main source for Shakespeare's Roman Plays – Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, and Coriolanus – as well as Timon of Athens and the Theseus and Hippolyta plot in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
North's translation of The Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Cæsar Augustus is included here as well, with a seperate title-page.
Folio. Modern quarter calf. Lacking one leaf in the first signature. Ownership inscription “G. Phipson 1689”
References: STC 20068; ESTC S105931