MARCUS AURELIUS MEDITATIONS 1920 FINE RIVIERE BINDING

[AURELIUS, MARCUS]. [Meditations] To Himself. London: Macmillan and Co., 1920.

Reprint. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo (155 x 100 x 10 mm.), pp. xlii, 167, (1). English text, translated and edited by Gerald H. Rendall. Exquisitely bound in full calf by Riviere & Son (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet); five raised spine bands, the compartments and bands ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt; both covers beautifully gilt ruled and tooled with elaborate stylized arabesque designs, the board edges and turn-ins similarly gilt decorated; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title page present; frontispiece showing a relief from the triumphal arch of M. Aurelius Antonius. Footnotes. Appendix to rear. Printed by R. & R. Clark Limited, Edinburgh. Condition: FINE. A wonderful and immaculate copy with no previous ownership marks.