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Paris : Michel de Vascosan, 1559. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [Editio princeps of Amyot's translation Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.] Thick folio, 36.3 x 25 x 4.4 cm. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Some restoration work to joints. All edges red. Collated: [8], 734, [26] leaves. Historiated initials, printers devices. First few leaves have marginal worming. Early signature of Doni Le Royer (sp?). <br> First edition of Plutarch's Lives by the scholar Jacques Amyot (1513-1593). Amyot was the teacher of Charles IX and Henri II, and famous as a Greek translator. - Mortimer. It is one of the masterpieces of French Renaissance prose - Montaigne called it "nostre breviaire." Amyot's French version was translated into English by Sir Thomas North (1535-1604) and soon became "Shakespeare's Plutarch", a major source for his Roman and Greek plays (Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens). <br> Refs.… Read More

Paris & Lausanne: Michel de Vascosan & François le Preux, 1575. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Early French editions of Plutarch's Morals and Lives published in 1575 and 1574-5 respectively (originally published in 1572 and 1559). Uniformly bound in early (17th/18th century) acid calf, modest wear, surface scrapes, one corner bumped and soft, a few minor worm holes, tears, but intact and sound overall. Small dampstain to bottom of first first pages of morales, occasional minor stains, foxing, but generally very fresh. Endpapers worn, front joint cracked on morales and endpapers a little loose, bindings likely tightened, old manuscript notes to titles and final leaf on morales and early minor notes scattered in Lives. Minor dampstaining scattered and at the top edge towards the end of lives. (6), 668 ll, privilege, index. (16), 1336, index, final colophon leaf with printer's mark present. Graesse 5 367 (Lives), Adams 1625, 1643 (the 1574 ed.).… Read More