Signed book: Cicero’s Three Books of Offices and Other Moral Works, translated by Cyrus R. Edmonds. NY: Harper and Brothers, 1855. Hardcover, 5 x 7.5, 343 pages. Signed on a first free end page at age 12 or thereabout with an ownership signature in black ink, “Wm. McKinley Jr.’s Book.” Autographic condition: very good, with scattered foxing and tape to left edge of the signed page. Book condition: G-/None. In the book, Cicero offers his analysis of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic, and the ideas contained within had a profound impact upon subsequent political thinkers—a great association, given McKinley’s future career.
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