Imaginary Portraits (1914)
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Imaginary Portraits (1914)
by Walter Pater
9 x 5 ¾. In English. Published by MacMillan and Co., 1914. Early Edition. Complete. Highly desirable used original 1914 first edition later printing of Walter Pater's classic tour-de-force. Gilt-tooled 3/4 green morocco and cloth, with five raised spine bands. Minor edgewear and some signs of aging. Binding and hinges tight and secure. Bookseller label on marbled endpaper and no marks or writing in text block. Hard to find these days, and a must for any serious collection of works by this eccentric, but highly esteemed British writer. In very good overall condition. New to our inventory. Detailed condition report coming soon. (The image of the author we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
Walter Horatio Pater (1839 – 1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial, reflecting his lost belief in Christianity. From 1885 to 1887, he published four new imaginary portraits in Macmillan's Magazine, each set at a turning-point in the history of ideas or art, and each a study of misfits, men born out of their time, who bring disaster upon themselves. These were collected in the volume “Imaginary Portraits,” first published in 1887. Here Pater's examination of the tensions between tradition and innovation, intellect and sensation, asceticism and aestheticism, social mores and amorality, becomes increasingly complex.
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Inventory Number: 85029
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