Amyot's Plutarch Lives (1578)
ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES
PLUTARCH (45-120)
AMYOT, Jacques (1513-1593, Translator)
Les Vies des Hommes Illustres Grecs et Romains. Translated by Jacques Amyot. Lyon: Etienne Michel, 1578.
The primary source for Shakespeare’s Greek and Roman plays: Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens.
Amyot's French translation of Plutarch from the Latin is widely regarded as one of the all-time masterpieces of French prose. It was the source text for Sir Thomas North's translation into English.
Octavo. 4 volumes bound as 2. Contemporary limp vellum. 1st volume covers toned and brittle, 2nd volume taller. Printed incunable leaf and an early Latin manuscript used as binders' waste.
Provenance: Ownership inscription and stamp of Paul Andraud.
USTC locates only three known copies (in Poland, Russia, and Scotland) not including the present one.
USTC 65703
ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES
PLUTARCH (45-120)
AMYOT, Jacques (1513-1593, Translator)
Les Vies des Hommes Illustres Grecs et Romains. Translated by Jacques Amyot. Lyon: Etienne Michel, 1578.
The primary source for Shakespeare’s Greek and Roman plays: Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens.
Amyot's French translation of Plutarch from the Latin is widely regarded as one of the all-time masterpieces of French prose. It was the source text for Sir Thomas North's translation into English.
Octavo. 4 volumes bound as 2. Contemporary limp vellum. 1st volume covers toned and brittle, 2nd volume taller. Printed incunable leaf and an early Latin manuscript used as binders' waste.
Provenance: Ownership inscription and stamp of Paul Andraud.
USTC locates only three known copies (in Poland, Russia, and Scotland) not including the present one.
USTC 65703
ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES
PLUTARCH (45-120)
AMYOT, Jacques (1513-1593, Translator)
Les Vies des Hommes Illustres Grecs et Romains. Translated by Jacques Amyot. Lyon: Etienne Michel, 1578.
The primary source for Shakespeare’s Greek and Roman plays: Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens.
Amyot's French translation of Plutarch from the Latin is widely regarded as one of the all-time masterpieces of French prose. It was the source text for Sir Thomas North's translation into English.
Octavo. 4 volumes bound as 2. Contemporary limp vellum. 1st volume covers toned and brittle, 2nd volume taller. Printed incunable leaf and an early Latin manuscript used as binders' waste.
Provenance: Ownership inscription and stamp of Paul Andraud.
USTC locates only three known copies (in Poland, Russia, and Scotland) not including the present one.
USTC 65703