Also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Laelius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scripio’s dream; and Scipio’s dream; and letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes, designed to exhibit a comparative view of the opinions of Cicero and those of modern [of the time] moralists and ethical philosophers.Dark blue cloth-covered boards with blind embossed decoration and gilt text to spine. Textual endpapers (publisher’s catalogue), discoloured. Discolouration to frontispiece tissue. Light foxing to edges of text block. This is an uncut volume, connected at the top edge in half-signatures.