Julius Caesar.

DUGGAN, Alfred.

Item Number: 126364

London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

First Faber and Faber edition of Duggan’s classic work, first published by Hutchinson & Co. in 1955. Octavo, original cloth. Ownership inscription. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Julius Caesar attained brilliance as an orator, writer, statesman, and general; he had also, as this balanced portrait shows, his limitations and his weakness. Alfred Duggan gives a lucid summary of the political position in Rome before Caesar came to prominence, setting against a constantly changing background the story of his rise to Consulship, of his brilliantly successful campaigns in Gaul and Britain, of the defeat of Pompey, and the crossing of the Rubicon which made him master of Italy.