About this title: Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, 1867), his essay on Winckelmann, the first expression of his idealism, appeared in the same review. In the following year his study of Aesthetic Poetry appeared in the Fortnightly Review. By the time his philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean appeared ...
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1920
Description: Good+ No Jacket. HB with rubbed spine and edges, foxing on inside end pages; no DJ, some browning to page-ends, internally clean and tight. read more
Description: Good. 8vo. Cloth Hardcover, 1908. The usual ex-library treatments are present. 319pp. Many pages uncut. Bound in dark red cloth with just a bit of fraying at the spine ends; corners rounded. The rear hinge is split. The pages are clean and intact. Offered by the Antiquarian, Rare, and Collectable Books section at Better World Books. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. Join the more than 2.8 million customers who have supported global literacy with their book purchases. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781410200051ISBN:1410200051
Description: New. Clean, crisp & tight, never read. NO-remainder mark! slight discoloration on top of the text block. Books may have a remainder mark on bottom of text block. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Macmillan & Co.
Date Published: 1895
Description: First UK edition, very good in dark blue/green boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. The frontispiece portrait of Pater has come loose at the bottom 2/3 of that page (tissue guard is intact). Small spots of wear to the cloth at the top of the spine. A posthumous collection, prepared by Charles L. Shadwell. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, 1925, L
Date Published: 1925
Description: Hardcover, original cloth. Former seminary library copy. Old paper label on spine, library name stamped on title page, otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., NY
Date Published: 1895
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 7" x 4 6/8", 319 pgs. Ads in back. Dark red cloth binding is moderately worn at spine top/bottom & bumped corners, spine is heavily foxed, mild foxing of endpapers w/ink names, address on front paste-down endpaper, edges are heavily foxed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: KESSINGER PUB LLC
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781419122361ISBN:1419122363
Description: New. I have reserved to the last what is perhaps the daintiest treatment of this subject in classical literature, the account of it which Ovid gives in the Fasti----a kind of Roman Calendar----for the seventh of April, the day of the games of Ceres. He te... read more
Binding: Boards
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Date Published: 1901
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Hardcover. Some rubbing and bumping. Some cracks to spine. Markings to spine. Otherwise a clean, tight, and unmarked book. Very neat. Top edge uncut. xi.319p. read more
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