Essays from 'The Guardian by Pater Walter 1839-1894 - 2013-01-28

Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. Library Edition. 149 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Rough cut pages. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.

Cambridge University Press, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1969. Dk. grey-blue boards, gilt spine titles on maroon fields, moderate shelf wear. Pages good, few w/ notation. 149 pages. Few bookstore marks. 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.. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Macmillan, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inches. 1918 Hardcover edition published by Maxmillan in VG- condition without jacket. This is the 3rd printing of the 1910 edition. 149 pp. (148 numbered) + Advert page for the Series Collection. Deep blue-green cloth covered boards show moderate edge wear to the front edge, bumped corners and scuffed boards with light bubbling to the cloth surface. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Library Edition of the Works of Walter Pater 10

Later "Library" edition of book first published in 1902. Cover has has some very noticeable discoloration on front and back and shelf wear along front cover edge. Pages are in pristine condition except for water stain on the first 40 pages. In fact, book probably was never read as the pages have yet to be separated at the top. Pages (on good quality deckled paper) are in excellent condition other than the water stains. There are no marks, tears, bookplates, etc.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition this one of 400 copies, 1897, hardcover with gray paper boards, octavo, 163pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book VG with split to paper at front joint, otherwise handsome boards and tight binding, endpapers faintly off-set, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.

London:: Macmillan,, 1905. Later printing. Cloth. Very good+. Markings and discolouration to cloth on covers; bumped at head and tail of spine. Gold lettering to spine bright. Pages bright and unmarked. Deckled edges. A handsome copy. A collection of nine critical essays originally published in The Guardian.

New.

Second edition. VG+/G. Dust jacket soiled with minor chips to corners and spine ends and a larger one to rear top corner. Dust jacket is now in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Minimal wear to book. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships in a box packed with care.