Date:1603
Description:A notable binding contemporary with Shakespeare. A royal coat-of-arms was stamped in gold on this volume in the seventeenth century. The same gilded ownership coat-of-arms adorns the back as the front of this volume. The book probably passed out of royal ownership before the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. In the nineteenth century it was owned by the antiquarian and book-collector Henry Yates-Thompson. It was probably for his library that fabric ties replaced the original leather laces along the fore-edge. Full title: Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines compared together Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot... and out of French into English by Sir Thomas North, Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Thomas Wight, 1603.
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