Froude, James Anthony. Julius Caesar. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Edition de Grand Luxe. [12232]
Three-quarter morocco with vibrant marbled paper boards, matching marbled end papers, top page edges gilt, 6 gilt-decorated spine panels, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some light rubbing to the edges. Photogravure frontispiece, letter press tissue guard, xxxv, [1], 450 clean pp., seven additional plates with letter press tissue guards. Good. Hardcover.
The World's Great Books series.
With a Critical and Biographical Introduction, by Burke A. Hinsdale.
Froude's brilliant biography of the great Julius Caesar, whom he sees as the necessary savior of a decayed, corrupt, and incompetent aristocracy. The book reads like a fast-paced historical novel rather than as a dry historical text.
