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London: George Bell & Sons, 1900. ~Limited edition of 325 copies, of which this is no. 10. Original full parchment, gilt lettering and decor to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Moderate soiling to parchment. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. 8vo (14.3 x 22.6cm). Hinges sound. Offset browning to endpapers. A very little scattered foxing. Owner's signature to front free endpaper, owner's inscription to blank front endpage. Portrait frontis with tissue guard (bust of Marcus Aurelius in British Museum). Printed in red & black throughout on laid paper. Decorative initials. A beautifully produced edition, finely printed by the Chiswick Press, of the renowned classicist George Long's 'admirable translation' (ODNB) of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, first published in 1862 as 'Thoughts on the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius'. Chiswick Press emblem to final page. Now scarce. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request.. 1st edn. Hardback. Very Good.… Read More

Editions du Cerf, 1970. ~No ownership marks. Facing Latin/French text. Minor stain at front of spine. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. Paperback. Very Good. 265pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1900. ~Full dark blue cloth, gilt frames to boards, gilt lettering to spine. Small 8vo (11.5 x 18.6cm). All edges gilt. Gilt decor to turn-ins. Burgundy endpapers. Hinges sound, endpapers uncracked at gutters. Latin translations of hymns by authors including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, John Keble, and John Henry Newman. Prefatory note by 'W. B. B.' (Walter Biggar Blaikie), explaining that '(t)hese essays in rhyming Latin were the recreation of my father after his retirement in his seventy-eighth year from active clerical and professional work', and that his father's death prevented further revision of the manuscript. William Garden Blaikie (1820-1899), Free Church of Scotland minister, writer, and temperance campaigner. His son Walter Blaikie was a partner in the printers T & A Constable, who printed this edition: clearly he was behind its publication and, as 'an authority on the history of Scottish typography, and a printer of fine… Read More

SBL Pr, 2016. ~Robust packaging. For overseas parcels, tracked delivery is available on request.. Paperback. Fine. viii,796pp. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked.