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Plutarch's lives : abridged from the original Greek, illustrated with notes and reflections, and embellished with copper-plate prints (v.4)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Plutarch's lives : abridged from the original Greek, illustrated with notes and reflections, and embellished with copper-plate prints (v.4)

Other titles: Lives

Level: Item

Classmark: Early Education/PLU

Creator(s): Plutarch

Additional creator(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774) (Other); Collyer, Joseph (1776) (Other)

Related people: Goldsmith, Oliver; Collyer, Joseph

Publisher: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-yard

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1762-94

Language: English

Size and medium: 7 v

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/240165

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013404279705181

Description

Vol. 1-5 abridged by Oliver Goldsmith; v. 6-7 probably compiled by Collyer. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.


Vol. 1: xviii, [6], 222, [6] p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 2: [xii], 226 p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 3: [12], 216 p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 4: [12], 227 p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 5: [8], 218 p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 6: [12], 236, [4] p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 7: [6], 244 p., [9] leaves of plates.


Copper-engraved plates.


Publisher's catalogues: (6 pages) at end of v. 1, and (4 pages) at end of v. 6.


Roscoe, S. Newbery J294(1).

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