First edition. 8vo. xvi, 494 pp., engraved frontispiece, with tissue guard, folding map at rear. Near contemporary full red morocco by Sangorski, spines with five raised bands outlined in gilt, second and third panels lettered in gilt on black morocco labels, the rest with gilt devices, front cover with gilt laurel wreath design within a triple gilt fillet border with small gilt floral corner pieces, top edge in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers, red ribbon placemarker (contents slightly browned but generally clean and unmarked; joints slightly rubbed, hinges intact and holding firmly, an excellent copy). London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1879.
A charmingly bound copy of this short biography of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar by the British historian James Anthony Froude (1818-1894).
