Description

Hardcover, octavo volume bound in full gray gilt stamped decorative leather. 383 pages. Illustrated with 8 full page black and white plates. Translated by Hamish Miles. Foreword by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Collector’s note card and blank, unused Easton Press book-plate laid-in loose. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: silk moire end-papers and bound in ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding and full genuine leather. A title in the ‘Library of Great Lives” series. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine.