Haslewood Books - The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome.

The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome. Written in Latine by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, and newly translated into English by Philemon Holland. From the edition of 1606. Royal 4to, 488 pages, frontispiece, 32cm, London: Frederick Ethells and Hugh Macdonald, 1931.

Etched title-page and portrait frontispiece of Julius Caesar by Violet Macdonald. Set in Centaur and printed at Oxford University Press. Number 6 of 20 (400) copies on T.H. Saunders paper, this being one of just a few (of the twenty) bound in full morocco, gilt spine titling, gold top, Rear endpaper freckled, spine a little faded. A very good opy indeed. (Tucker 32)