ESSAYS ON OLD-AGE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH REMARKS BY WILLIAM MELMOTH

An early printing of Melmoth's translation. 8vo, full contemporary speckled calf, the boards ruled in gilt, the spine with mult-ruled gilt bands separating the compartments, three compartments with a laurel and dove gilt center tool, one with a red morocco label lettered in gilt. 441pp, 6 ads. An uncommonly well preserved copy, the text solid and extremely clean for this printing, the contemporary calf quite handsome though matured a bit, a little tender at the hinges.

Edizione: very scarce in contemporary calf in collectible condition. marcus cicero, orator, lawyer, politician, and writer was indeed one of the renown and most influential men of the roman world. a most prolific writer and speaker, it is through him that much of the history of rome is known. in the last years of his life, he found himself embroiled in a political controversy that would ultimately cause his execution. but during this last year of his life, he wrote a series of letters to brutus, them a provincial governor, giving a unique picture of the workings of the roman senate.<br> using the convention of fictional dialogue between personages of the past, cicero expounds his ideas on old-age and friendship. in this fictional conversation, cato the censer addresses laelius and scipio. all three of these men were considered by cicero to be among the greatest minds of their time.