Leighton Library has 1606 edition of "Les vies des hommes illustres" by Jacques Amyot

Added by Leighton Library at 08:18 on 30 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1606 edition of "Les vies des hommes illustres" by French Renaissance writer and translator Jacques Amyot who was born #OnThisDay 30 October 1513. This was described as a "vigorous and idiomatic version of Plutarch," which was translated into English, and supplied Shakespe...

Leighton Library has 1799 edition of "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell

Added by Leighton Library at 07:35 on 29 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1799 edition of "The Life of Samuel Johnson" (considered one of the greatest biographies ever written) by Scottish biographer James Boswell who was born #OnThisDay 29 October 1740

Leighton Library has 1757 edition of the "Works of Dr Jonathan Swift

Added by Leighton Library at 08:06 on 28 October 2024

#OnThisDay 28 October 1726 the novel "Gulliver's Travels" by satirist Jonathan Swift was first published. The Leighton Library has a 1757 edition of the "Works of Dr Jonathan Swift," which includes this and much more