Commentarii de Bello Gallico et Civili

Description

This is Caesar’s own accounts of the campaigns in Gaul and of the war against Pompey, published by Dublura. The first Latin most readers ever meet, here set with full ligatures, decorative initials and woodcut ornaments after the manner of the printers of old.

The outside.

The books are reg­u­lar hard­backs with the design prin­ted over them, yet they are un­like any mod­ern cover you have seen. Each im­it­ates an an­tique bind­ing: leath­er tex­ture, gilt dec­or­a­tion, dec­or­at­ive en­d­pa­pers and sim­il­ar. Laid on a shelf or a table, to an un­trained eye they will pass for an arte­fact of an­oth­er age.

The inside.

His­tor­ic type, wood­cut or­na­ments, dec­or­at­ive ini­tials, clas­sic­al lig­at­ures… Our type­set­ting has all of that and even more. We have, quite lit­er­ally, en­deav­oured to mimic 18th-cen­tury type­set­ting to the dot. Every mar­gin, every sym­bol, every let­ter that sits on the page has been placed there con­sciously after con­sid­er­able re­search.