Priceless Book Stolen
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NOTTINGHAM, England — A priceless medieval book in Latin has been stolen from a library near this English Midlands city, police said Wednesday.
The leather-bound “Plutarch’s Lives,” printed on cream parchment in Venice in 1478, had been kept in a safe at Long Eaton public library.
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