Fifty Epigrams

This small anthology gathers fifty short epigrams and pointed quotations rather than long poems. The pieces come from many periods and languages, from classical moralists and dramatists to later wits, and they treat vanity, love, politics, drink, and the uses of a sharp sentence. Some extracts are taken from larger works; others are self-contained remarks. There is no narrative and no single authorial voice. The volume is a pocket sampler of compressed verbal attack and observation, arranged for brief reading rather than as a history of the epigram as a form.

Bound in yellow moire silk with a gilt on black cover label. Gold lightweight card slipcase embossed with FS logo. Pattern printed gilt on black endpapers. Miniature poetry series.