Meditations
London: Folio Society, 2002.
First Folio Society edition. 201 [2] pp. Goatskin leather spine with gilt lettering; printed paper sides featuring a wood engraving by Simon Brett; housed in original brown slipcase. Book clean, sharp, and unmarked.
A finely produced edition of the Stoic classic, translated with introduction and notes by Maxwell Staniforth, with a new preface by A. C. Grayling and wood engravings by Simon Brett.
This first Folio Society printing presents the definitive modern English rendering of the emperor-philosopher's private writings. Handsome typography in Poliphilus and Blado, printed on Buhl wove paper, with elegant illustration and fine binding typical of early-2000s Folio craftsmanship.
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