[Rarebooks] FS: Suetonius THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS

[Charles Agvent]

SUETONIUS. THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS. Verona: Limited Editions 
Club, 1963. Quarto (6-7/8" x 10-1/4") bound in Verona with a backstrip 
of wine-colored Italian linen stamped in gold and boards covered in a 
decorative wood-blocked paper hand made by Antonio Gabrielli of 
Montecatini, 512 pages. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at 
the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. The Elizabethan 
translation of Philemon Holland, emended by Moses Hadas who has also 
written an introduction. Illustrated with a dozen full-color paintings 
and a medallion portrait of each of the twelve Caesars by Salvatore 
Fiume. Copy #1281 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and by the printer on the 
colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. About Fine in a Near Fine 
dustwrapper and Fine slipcase with the backstrip sunned.
Suetonius is a primary source for the lives of the Caesars including the 
infamous Caligula. (#021524)        $150

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