12mo. [14], 118pp, [10]. With an engraved title-page and a terminal list of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to boards. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, internally clean and crisp.

The first Brindley edition of the only work of Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos (c.110-25 BCE) to survive into the modern era, containing the lives of such luminaries of the ancient world as Hannibal, Cato and Atticus.