“THE OUTSTANDING HISTORIAN… OF THE SILVER AGE OF LATIN LETTERS”

TACITUS, Cornelius. The Works. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872, 1865. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $800.

Revised Oxford translation edition of Tacitus’ works, handsomely bound.

"Tacitus is the outstanding historian and principal prose writer of the Silver Age of Latin letters… He is by far the most reliable authority for the history of the period… Relatively unknown during the Middle Ages, Tacitus, whose works were first printed in Venice about 1473 and several times before the end of the century, exercised great influence on Renaissance historians" (PMM 93). This edition includes his chief works, the "Annales" and "Histories," which cover the period from the accession of Tiberius in A.D. 14 to the death of Domitian in 97, as well as the "Life of Agricola," "Notes on the Manners of the Germans," and the "Dialogue concerning Oratory."

A bit of faint foxing in Volume II. A handsome copy.