The Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Complete and Unabridged (Modern Library #188.1)

SUETONIUS (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus)

Published by The Modern Library / Random House [c.1956], New York, 1956

About this Item

The histories of the famous Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, have been carried forward from ancient times to the modern era largely through the efforts of Suetonius, a 1st and 2nd Century Roman historian. His writings have been rendered into English in this unexpurgated Modern Library edition. Edited, with notes and an introduction by Joseph Gavorse. This copy in brown and tan variant dust jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 376 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #188.1. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound, but with prior owner's signature to ffep and slight age-toning to cloth. Unclipped jacket ($1.45) with mild darkening to spine and small tears & chips to edges, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xvi, 361, (2, ads) pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Complete and Unabridged (Modern Library #188.1)
• Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House [c.1956], New York
• Publication Date: 1956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-
• Seller catalogs:
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