1899-1901 The Renaissance & Imaginary Portraits

Name: 1899-1901 2vol The Renaissance & Imaginary Portraits
SKU: 849T55
Price: 80 GBP
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Published: London Macmillan and Co., Limited

Size: 8" by 6" Pagination: xvi, 252; 153, (2)pp.

Two very neat volumes of work by English essayist, Walter Pater.

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weight: 1.5kgs / stock code: 849T55

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Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Two volumes. Written by Walter Pater, an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, 1899. Scarce edition. Illustrated with frontispiece. An outline of Pater's approach to art and an advocation of the ideal of the intense inner life. Seem by many as a manifesto of aestheticism. Imaginary Portraits, 1901. Fourth edition. A study of misfits, men born out of their time, who bring disaster upon themselves, namely: 'A Prince of Court Painters' on Watteau and Jean-Baptiste Pater; 'Denys L'Auxerrois' on Dionysus and the medieval cathedral-builders; 'Sebastian van Storck' on 17th-century Dutch society and painting, and the philosophy of Spinoza; and 'Duke Carl of Rosenmold' on the German Enlightenment.

Condition

In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities and minor rubbing. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd handling mark.

Overall: Very Good

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