/lit/ - Literature

I got myself Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in this edition, and I absolutely love it (the book as physical object, I mean, though I also like the content).

Since I intend to read more classical authors, I was wondering if you'd have an opinion about this edition. I'm plenty happy with it but I am wondering if newer translations are better and if so, why.

I especially like the idea of building up a collection of these books as I read them. It looks great and I like the familiarity of it.

Another absolutely amazing series of books is the Library of America one, whose books are so gorgeous I'd almost attempt to have intercourse with them. It is itself inspired by the French Pléïades, of which I have one volume, and is also great, but you'd better like extremely thin (Bible thin) paper, and I'm not too crazy about that.

ITT: Loab and other great book editions!

Are these any good? I was considering buying the Hesiod volumes; is there a better option?

What are some patrician publishers, /lit/?

"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old."
-James Loeb

The books in the Loeb Classical Library were designed with the vision of a learned gentleman who, when encountering a period of leisure in his daily toil, could remove a modestly sized codex from his coat pocket for self enrichment.

The LCL provide something of a standard for classical philologists, and its scope includes all extant authors of antiquity.

If you were such a gentlemen, which volume would be found in your pocket?

Here is the catalog for reference.

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/hup/loeb-classical-library-2013/#/8