On the left, we show a rare copy of
the Limited Edition of
Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars
published with
Papé's illustrations for the first
time in 1930.
This example retains the original decorative gilt-stamped
black cloth
cover.
To the right, we show the
decorative
Title Page prepared by Papé.
The Foreword to Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve
Caesars (1930) provides a thoughtful introduction to the work as follows:
It is difficult to say whether Suetonius'
matter-of-fact relation of the gross and the
horrific, or his solemn insistence upon the homely and
the intimate, is the more
diverting. We see, for example, the Divine Julius
seizing the privilege of wearing
the laurel wreath as the most grateful item in his
triumph because it conceals his
baldness. That excellent and courtly prince, Augustus,
is caught in the act of
ordering his shoes made with overthick soles that he
might appear taller than he
was. There is grim humour in the mad antics of Nero and
Caligula: the one
posturing as a great artist, and the other as a
military hero. And, though the
sometimes world-splitting battles are treated with the
brevity and indifference
that they perhaps deserve, not a single side-splitting
comment by any wit or sage
of the period would seem to have been omitted. Thus
succeeding generations
of readers have reason to be grateful for the nice
balance that is maintained in
these matters when they reflect that while Suetonius'
omissions are adequately
supplied elsewhere (for he was contemporaneous with
Tacitus and Dio Cassius),
Suetonius' achievement is nowhere paralleled.
Papé's illustrations for Suetonius' Lives of the
Twelve Caesars are a wonderful complement to the translated text supplied
by Bird.
Our Greeting Cards and Fine Art Posters
For connoisseurs of
Papé's work, we have prepared sets of 16 Greeting Cards displaying
each of his major monotone images for Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting
Cards appear.
Code: FCP SLTC MS(16) Price: US$80.00
When presented on Greeting Cards, these
images are prepared as tipped-on plates - in
hommage to the hand-crafted approach typical of prestige illustrated publications
produced in the early decades
of the 20th Century. Each card is hand-finished and the
images are presented
on White card stock with an accompanying envelope. The rear
of each card carries information
about Frank C Papé, this wonderful suite and the
profiled
illustration - we have left the interior of the cards blank so that you may
write your own personal message.
Should you wish to order a reproduction print of one or
more of these images, we
have provided some options below. Each of our Fine
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information about
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