A very finely bound copy of Rendall's edition of Marcus Aurelius Anoninus' [121-180 AD] class Stoic work, originally meant to be private notes addressed to himself and published only later, without his knowledge.
No one would now dare write a book like Marcus Aurelius’ To Himself, or, as we call it in English, The Meditations, and present it to the world as philosophy. He didn’t either. But once published, these, his most intimate thoughts, were considered among the most precious of all philosophical utterances by his contemporaries, by all Western Civilization after they returned to favor at the Renaissance, and most especially by the Victorian English, amongst whom The Meditations was a household book. (Rexroth, Classics Revisited, 112).
Rendall, Gerald H. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus To Himself. In English by Gerald H. Rendall, M.A., Litt.D. Head Master of Charterhouse. London. Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1926. 167pp.
A very good copy, bound in leather, generally solid, with bright and clean pages. Almost certainly a Riviere binding, but not indicated.
