Description
Translated by Henry Holcroft, the first English language edition of The History of the Warres of the Emperour Justinian in Eight Books, originally written in Greek by Procopius of Caesarea.
Folio, [xii], [1] 2-68, [4] 1-25, [5], 27-55 [1], 1-156pp. Original brown calf, thin trim stamped in blind on covers. Four raised bands along spine, original endpapers. Leather is worn along edges of covers and spine. Stable text block, front hinge beginning to spilt along bottom edge, otherwise sound. Faint toning and creasing to leaves, common with age and primarily reserved to endpapers. Features an engraved title page illustrated with subjects from the text.
(Wing P3640) (Hoffmann III, 300) (Sarton I, 454)
From Sarton I, page 454: Procopius was “secretary and legal adviser to Belisarios, Justinian’s greatest general. His earliest and most important work (500 to 554) is his “History” (in eight books) describing the wars against the Persians (two books), against the Vandals (two books), and against the Goths (three books) (Book 8 is a summary of events down to 554).”
Full collation available upon request.
