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Julius Caesar (full name Gaius Iulius Caesar) was born into one of the highest social, yet relatively politically unimportant, families of Rome in 100BCE.  Throughout his life, Caesar married daughters of high-ranking men in order to gain political and social power.  He was a successful military general and a convincing (albeit not always successful) Attic orator who often used bribes, threats and  a multitude of friendships and connections to exact revenge and to rise up the ranks of the politically powerful in Rome.  Given control of three large regions of what would be Europe by the Senate, Caesar started, and finished, a major war in Gaul which quickly and vastly increased his influence over the Roman people while simultaneously solidifying his enemies’ positions against him.  In order to escape conviction and exile, Caesar “crossed the Rubicon” in 49BCE with his army and invaded Italy, starting a civil war which spread throughout the Roman Empire.  After his victory, Caesar enjoyed a variety of high political positions from 49 to 45BCE before finally naming himself ''dictator perpetuo'' (perpetual dictator) in 44BCE.  On the “Ides of March,” 15 March 44BCE, Caesar was assassinated in a widespread conspiracy to take him out of power.  Caesar adopted his great-nephew Octavian, who would become the first Roman “emperor” Augustus, posthumously through his will.  <ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1173 "Iūlius Caesar"] in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref><br />   
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Julius Caesar (full name Gaius Iulius Caesar) was born into one of the highest social, yet relatively politically unimportant, families of Rome in 100BCE.  Throughout his life, Caesar married daughters of high-ranking men in order to gain political and social power.  He was a successful military general and a convincing (albeit not always successful) Attic orator who often used bribes, threats and  a multitude of friendships and connections to exact revenge and to rise up the ranks of the politically powerful in Rome.  Given control of three large regions of what would be Europe by the Senate, Caesar started, and finished, a major war in Gaul which quickly and vastly increased his influence over the Roman people while simultaneously solidifying his enemies’ positions against him.  In order to escape conviction and exile, Caesar “crossed the Rubicon” in 49BCE with his army and invaded Italy, starting a civil war which spread throughout the Roman Empire.  After his victory, Caesar enjoyed a variety of high political positions from 49 to 45BCE before finally naming himself ''dictator perpetuo'' (perpetual dictator) in 44BCE.  On the “Ides of March,” 15 March 44BCE, Caesar was assassinated in a widespread conspiracy to take him out of power.  Caesar adopted his great-nephew Octavian, who would become the first Roman “emperor” Augustus, posthumously through his will.  <ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1173 "Iūlius Caesar"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref><br />   
 
<br />This 1750 compilation of Julius Caesar’s works includes his most famous war commentaries in the original Latin.  These are: ''De Bello Gallico'', ''De Bello Civili'', ''De Bello Alexandrino'', ''De Bello Africano'', and ''De Bello Hispaniensi''.  Caesar relates his role and memories from these wars in Gaul, the Roman Empire (Civil War), Greece, Africa, and Spain, respectively.  Additionally included are fragments of letters Caesar wrote to the orator Cicero, and an index of words and concepts from the works, ''Index Rerum et Verborum''.<br />
 
<br />This 1750 compilation of Julius Caesar’s works includes his most famous war commentaries in the original Latin.  These are: ''De Bello Gallico'', ''De Bello Civili'', ''De Bello Alexandrino'', ''De Bello Africano'', and ''De Bello Hispaniensi''.  Caesar relates his role and memories from these wars in Gaul, the Roman Empire (Civil War), Greece, Africa, and Spain, respectively.  Additionally included are fragments of letters Caesar wrote to the orator Cicero, and an index of words and concepts from the works, ''Index Rerum et Verborum''.<br />
 
<br />This is the first Foulis edition of Caesar's ''Commentaries'', edited by Samuel Clarke, in the rare large paper issue. "This edition is a very magnificent and rare one, and in considerable request, both on account of the beauty of the impression, and of the great reputation which the Foulises have so justly acquired, by the numerous editions of the Classics published by them." <ref> J. W. Moss, Classical Bibliography (1837), Vol. I, p. 236) </ref>
 
<br />This is the first Foulis edition of Caesar's ''Commentaries'', edited by Samuel Clarke, in the rare large paper issue. "This edition is a very magnificent and rare one, and in considerable request, both on account of the beauty of the impression, and of the great reputation which the Foulises have so justly acquired, by the numerous editions of the Classics published by them." <ref> J. W. Moss, Classical Bibliography (1837), Vol. I, p. 236) </ref>

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by Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar (full name Gaius Iulius Caesar) was born into one of the highest social, yet relatively politically unimportant, families of Rome in 100BCE. Throughout his life, Caesar married daughters of high-ranking men in order to gain political and social power. He was a successful military general and a convincing (albeit not always successful) Attic orator who often used bribes, threats and a multitude of friendships and connections to exact revenge and to rise up the ranks of the politically powerful in Rome. Given control of three large regions of what would be Europe by the Senate, Caesar started, and finished, a major war in Gaul which quickly and vastly increased his influence over the Roman people while simultaneously solidifying his enemies’ positions against him. In order to escape conviction and exile, Caesar “crossed the Rubicon” in 49BCE with his army and invaded Italy, starting a civil war which spread throughout the Roman Empire. After his victory, Caesar enjoyed a variety of high political positions from 49 to 45BCE before finally naming himself dictator perpetuo (perpetual dictator) in 44BCE. On the “Ides of March,” 15 March 44BCE, Caesar was assassinated in a widespread conspiracy to take him out of power. Caesar adopted his great-nephew Octavian, who would become the first Roman “emperor” Augustus, posthumously through his will. [1]

This 1750 compilation of Julius Caesar’s works includes his most famous war commentaries in the original Latin. These are: De Bello Gallico, De Bello Civili, De Bello Alexandrino, De Bello Africano, and De Bello Hispaniensi. Caesar relates his role and memories from these wars in Gaul, the Roman Empire (Civil War), Greece, Africa, and Spain, respectively. Additionally included are fragments of letters Caesar wrote to the orator Cicero, and an index of words and concepts from the works, Index Rerum et Verborum.

This is the first Foulis edition of Caesar's Commentaries, edited by Samuel Clarke, in the rare large paper issue. "This edition is a very magnificent and rare one, and in considerable request, both on account of the beauty of the impression, and of the great reputation which the Foulises have so justly acquired, by the numerous editions of the Classics published by them." [2]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Julius Caesar

Title: Caii Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii de Rebus a Caesare Gestis Commentarii

Published: Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis : Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1750.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Caesar fol. Foul. and given by Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes. According to Gaskell's bibliography, the Foulis Press published Caesar's Works in folio once, in 1750.[3] Both Brown's Bibliography[4] and George Wythe's Library[5] on LibraryThing include this title and edition as the one intended by Jefferson's notation.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in full, old polished calf, with brown morocco title label on the spine. Has five raised bands with floral-design gilt tooling in the compartments, triple-line borders around the covers, doubline-line borders on the cover edges, floral & leaf-form tooling along the leather turn-ins. All the edges are stained red with marbled paper endpapers and a light blue silk bookmarker bound in. Purchased from Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. "Iūlius Caesar" in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
  2. J. W. Moss, Classical Bibliography (1837), Vol. I, p. 236)
  3. Philip Gaskell, A Bibliography of The Foulis Press, 2nd ed. (Winchester, Hampshire, England : St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986), 136-137.
  4. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433
  5. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe