Edmund Spenser
EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599)
The Faerie Queen: the shepheard’s calendar, together with the other works of England’s Arch-poët Edm. Spencer...
London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611
THOMAS NORTH (1535-1601?)
The lives of noble Grecians & Romans compared together, by that grave learned philosopher & historiographer Plutarch ...
Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, London, Anno Dom. M.DC.LXXVI. [1676]
This is the 7th edition. North’s translation was first published in English in 1579. Plutarch’s Lives, illustrating the moral character of his subjects through a series of anecdotes, were highly influential in the Renaissance (Shakespeare drew upon them for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra) and after, inspiring other biographical projects, such as the British Plutarch and the Biographia Britannia.
Gift of Mary Spillman, 2009
EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599)
The Fairy Queen. Written by Edmund Spenser. With a glossary, explaining the old and obscure words.
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1758
From the collection of Stanley Marcus. Gift of Linda Marcus, 2003.
ANDREW KIPPIS (1725-1795)
Biographia britannica; or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle’s Historical and critical dictionary. The 2d ed., with corrections, enlargements, and the addition of new lives: by Andrew Kippis, with the assistance of other gentlemen.
London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan [etc.] 1778-93
Only 5 volumes published ... the dictionary ends abruptly with the article “Fastolff”. Vols. 2-5 include corrigenda and addenda to all previous volumes.
FRANCIS WRANGHAM (1769-1842)
The British Plutarch: containing the lives of the most eminent divines, patriots, statemen, warriors, philosophers, poets, and artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the accention of Henry VIII, to the present time. A new edition re-arranged, and enriched with several additional lives by the Rev. Francis Wrangham.
London: J. Mawman, 1816
The first edition appeared in 1762, edited by Thomas Mortimer (1730-1810). A second edition was published in 1776.