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A quality paperback edition of this timeless work of Stoicism―part of the Typophiles Classics series, presenting the great books set in the finest typefaces of their day Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations are here presented in Gerald H. Rendall’s translation of 1901, which balances accuracy, style, and readability. This edition of the Rendall translation is set in the Doves Type, a typeface designed c. 1900 for the Doves Press of London, inspired by Nicolas Jenson’s early roman types of the fifteenth century. Jenson’s press at Venice was important to the tradition of classical and humanistic scholarship from which Rendall descended. About the Typophiles Classics series The Typophile Classics present the great books set in the finest typefaces of their day―for a superior reading experience that transports you to the author’s time and place. These are portable paperbacks of the highest quality: elegantly designed and typeset, and printed on a premium eggshell paper with a durable sewn binding. Typophile Classics is an imprint of Abbeville Press, an independent publishing house known for its fine books on the arts.