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728. Tranquillus, Gaius Suetonius
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Illustrated by Salvatore Fiume.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963
Signed Limited Edition. Super Royal Octavo. 528 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by designer, Giovanni Mardersteig and illustrator, Salvatore Fiume. Fiume includes a dozen full-color paintings, as well as a medallion portrait of each of the twelve Caesars. Priniting and binding done in Verona. Backstrip is wine-colored Italian linen stamped in gold, and the boards are covered in a decorative wood-blocked paper, hand made.

75/150     SOLD: $69.00

Condition: Very Good