JULIUS CAESAR

D. Appleton, New York, 1932.  Hard cover, 158 pages including Biographical Note and Index.  Black cloth with faded gilt lettering in red square on spine; light edge and spine end wear; a few marks on boards; binding sound; red top-stain.  No jacket.  Prior owners’ names on front paste-down and FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; black & white frontis of Caesar from the bust in the British museum.  Part of the Appleton Biographies series.  ‘He drew the habitable earth into an empire which lasted for five centuries, and he laid the foundations of a fabric of law and government which is still standing after two thousand years.  He made the world possible for the Christian faith … gave humanity order and peace, and thereby prepared the ground for many precious seeds. … We know the things that he did, but not why he did them.’ (from Introduction)