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The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes
Lives. English
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- compared together by that grave learned philosopher & historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot, Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of the Kings privy counsel, and Great Amner of Fraunce, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North ; decorated by Thomas Lowinsky
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- Half title: Plutarch's Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes translated by Sir Thomas North
- Vol. 8 has title: Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Caesar Augustus
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- English, French, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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- Large paper edition
- Boston ; New York : Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-Upon-Avon and published for the Press by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928
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- 8 v. : ill., plates ; 24 cm
- OCLC
- ocm46929415
- "The decorations for this edition were designed by Thomas Lowinsky."
- Vols. 1-7 are a close reprint of the 1st ed. published in 1579; vol. 8, reprinted from pt. 2 of the 1603 ed., has title: The lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Caesar Augustus.
- "Five hundred copies of this edition have been printed in Great Britain for sale in the United States of America ..."
- Title in red and black.
- Vols. 1-7 are a close reprint of the 1st ed. published in 1579; v. 8 reprinted from pt. 2 of the 1603 ed. has title: The lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the elder, and of Octavius Caesar Augustus