Box 3
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 18
File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Leaf from Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, 1579
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Identifier: Item 18
Scope and Contents
From Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes," translated by Sir Thomas North out of the french version of Bishop Amyot. This translation was printed by Thomas Vautrollier at London in 1579. This leaf was taken from the first edition; the same edition that Shakespeare used as a source for his historical plays. The recto side is page 589; the verso is page 590.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1579