J.68
Plutarchi vitae.
Gr.
Lat. Cruserii.
4. v.
small folio.
1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 113, as above, with reading 4 v p. fol.
PLUTARCH.
Του σοφωτατου Πλουταρχου παραλληλου βιοι Ρωμαιων και Ελληνων.μθ´. Sapientissimi Plutarchi paralellum, Vitæ Romanorum & Græcorum, Quadraginta nouem. [
Florentiæ: in ædibus
Phil. Junta,
1517.]--
Plvtarchi Chæronei, Gravissimi et Philosophi et Historici, Vitæ comparatæ illustrium Virorum, Græcorum & Romanorum, ita digestæ ut
temporum ordo series que constet, Hermanno Crvserio I. C. . . .
Basileæ: Apvd
Thomam Gvarinvm Anno
M. D. LXIIII. [1564.]
PA4369 .A2 1517
These two editions conflated and bound in 4 vol. folio. Vol. I has the half-title for the
Giunta edition as above, preceded by a leaf with the
Giunta device. Vol. II has the title for the Basle edition (backed), vol.
III and IV have no titles. At the end
of the last volume (1564
edition) are
lives by Aemilius Probus [Cornelius Nepos].
The books were bound for Jefferson in calf, and are initialled by him in each volume; numerous MS. marginal notes in several hands and the signature of Wm. Cocke. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Plutarch, c. 46-120, Greek biographer and miscellaneous writer, is known chiefly for his
Parallel Lives, of which the Giunta edition above is the first printed edition. The work was frequently reprinted and translated. The first
complete edition of Plutarch’s
Opera
was published by Stephanus in 1572, see the next number.
Hermann Cruser, 1510-1575, Dutch classical scholar.
William Cocke, 1747-1828, Virginia lawyer, was a lifelong friend of Jefferson, whose library contained a number of books with Cocke’s signature.
[68]
J.69
Plutarchi vitae.
Gr.
Lat.
Eng.
13. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 27, as above.
PLUTARCH.
Πλουτάρχου το(’υ) Χαιρωνέως παράλληλα, (’`η) βίοι παράλληλοι. Plvtarchi Chæronensis Parallela seu Vitæ parallelæ. Id est, Vitæ Illvstrivm virorum, quos binos quasi paria composuit . . . Interprete
Hermanno Crvserio, I. C. . .
[
Geneva:
H. Stephanus,
1572.]--
Plutarch’s Lives. In
Six Volumes. Translated from the
Greek . . . To which is prefixed, The Life of Plutarch, by Mr. Dryden.
Edinburgh: Printed by
Alexander Donaldson,
M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774.]
PA4367 .A2 1572 v. 9-21
These two editions conflated and bound in 13 volumes 12mo. Each volume has at the beginning a title from the
Edinburgh, or a half-title from the
Stephanus edition. The
Stephanus edition is the first edition of the
Opera
of Plutarchus and was issued in 13 volumes. The remaining volumes are in the
Jefferson collection, but were
separated by him from the
Vitae, and are in chapter 16, Ethics.
The volumes are bound in calf, gilt backs, with the volume numbers 1-13. Each is initialled by Jefferson on any leaves which
bear the signatures I and T in any form. Each title or half-title has the volume number written in ink by two hands, one of
which may be Jefferson’s; paragraph numerals in the margins of the text are by Jefferson. An analysis of the contents in pencil
on the fly-leaves of each volume is in a later hand. The first title of the Edinburgh edition has the autograph signature
Ex Libris Jno. Taylor, and the date 1787 in another hand. The volumes have the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate, with the exception of vol. III
which is from another copy with marbled edges, and has been rebound with new endpapers and bookplate.
The Stephanus edition was at one time in the library of William Byrd, whose autograph signature is on the title-page of vol. I of the
Opera. It is entered in his
