Fo. (123⁄8 × 81⁄4). B. 9.
Collation: *8A-5F6, paged. Wanting * 1 (? blank). (Sigs. * 3-5 are misprinted * ij-iiij.) Epistle dedicatory to Queen Elizabeth, signed Thomas North, and dated Jan. 16, 1579. Address to the reader, signed by the same and dated Jan. 24, 1579. Amyot's address to the reader. Table of contents. B 2v and B 5r have been left blank in the printing. First edition. Some copies have the imprint, 'Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier and Iohn Wight'.
Sinker 481. BM 1243 (Wight).
The Lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, compared together by that graue learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea: Translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amiot Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of the Kings priuie Counsell, and great Almner of France: With the liues of Hannibal and Scipio African: translated out of Latine into French by Charles de l'Escluse, and out of French into English, By Sir Thomas North Knight. Hereunto are also added the liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the elder, tyrant of Sicilia, of Augustus Cæsar, of Plutarke, and of Seneca: with the liues of nine other excellent Chieftaines of warre: collected out of Æmylius Probus, by S. G. S. and Englished by the aforesaid Translator. London, Printed by Richard Field. 1612.
Fo. (123⁄4 × 83⁄8). B. 5.
Collation: A8B-5O65P8, paged. Wanting A 1 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory to Queen Elizabeth, signed Thomas North. Address to the reader signed by the same. Amyot's address to the reader. Table of Lives. There is a medallion portrait to each life. The additional lives have a separate titlepage, dated 1610, at sig. 5B 1, followed by Epistle dedicatory to Queen Elizabeth, signed Thomas North. Alphabetical table at end. The additional lives first appeared in the third edition, in 1603. They were translated into French, not from Probus but from C. Nepos. The initials S. G. S. stand for Simon Goulart Senlisien. Fourth edition.
BM 1244.
The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. Whereunto are annexed the Summaries necessary to be read before every Treatise. At London Printed by Arnold Hatfield. 1603.
Collation: ¶4A-5Z66A-6E46F6, paged. Epistle dedicatory to King James, signed Philémon Holland. Table of contents. At the end glossary of obscure terms, alphabetical index and list of errata. First edition.
BM 1243.
PORTO, Luigi da.
Historia nuouamente ritrouata, di due nolibi amanti, Con la loro pietosa morte: Interuenuta già nella Città di Verona. Nel tempo del Signor Bartolomeo della Scala. Nuouamente stampata. In Venetia Per Giouan. Griffio. [Colophon adds date:] M. D. LIII.