MARCUS AURELIUS.
The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
An attractive English edition of the ‘Meditations’ of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, originally composed between 170 and 180 AD as a private work intended for his own moral guidance and self-improvement. The ‘Meditations’ remains one of the most powerful, and certainly the most-widely read, expositions of Stoic philosophy which underscores the necessity of “living a well-reasoned life” of calm emotional self-control and rational judgement.
The present English translation was published as part of the Oxford World’ Classics series. The present example is in the publisher’s handsome and scarce ‘superior library style’ binding varian. Most commonly found in the cheapest option of plain cloth, the series was advertised in at least six styles, with this by far the most expensive (4s net against 1s for cloth or 2s 6d for parchment) in the list in the advertisement section at the rear here.
