Collation: A⁸B-5O⁶5P⁸, paged. Wanting A 1 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory to Queen Elizabeth, signed Thomas North. Address to the reader signed by the same. Amyot’s address to the reader. Table of Lives. There is a medallion portrait to each life. The additional lives have a separate titlepage, dated 1610, at sig. 5B 1, followed by Epistle dedicatory to Queen Elizabeth, signed Thomas North. Alphabetical table at end. The additional lives first appeared in the third edition, in 1603. They were translated into French, not from Probus but from C. Nepos. The initials S. G. S. stand for Simon Goulart Senlisien. Fourth edition. BM 1244. The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. Whereunto are annexed the Summaries necessary to be read before every Treatise. _At London Printed by Arnold Hatfield._ 1603. F^o. (12⅝ × 8⅜). B. 6. Collation: ¶⁴A-5Z⁶6A-6E⁴6F⁶, paged. Epistle dedicatory to King James, signed Philémon Holland. Table of contents. At the end glossary of obscure terms, alphabetical index and list of errata. First edition. BM 1243. PORTO, LUIGI DA. Historia nuouamente ritrouata, di due nolibi amanti, Con la loro pietosa morte: Interuenuta già nella Città di Verona. Nel tempo del Signor Bartolomeo della Scala. Nuouamente stampata. _In Venetia Per Giouan. Griffio._ [Colophon adds date:] M. D. LIII. 8^o. (6 × 4). X. 4. 1. Collation: A-E⁴, folios numbered. Epistle dedicatory to Lucina Savorgana. Introduction. ‘Narratione della Historia.’ The last leaf is blank except for the printer’s device on the verso. Da Porta’s ‘historia’ is supposed to have been the source of Bandello’s ‘novella’ of Romeo and Juliet. It may in its turn have been founded on a tale of Massuccio. The earliest edition is undated, and there was another in 1536 before the present one. PUTTENHAM, GEORGE. The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes: The first of Poets and Poesie, the second of Proportion, the third of Ornament. _At London Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the black-Friers, neere Ludgate._ 1589. 4^o. (7¼ × 5⅛). R. 14.