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MARIUS THE EPICUREAN: His sensations and ideas
by Pater, Walter
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1913. In two volumes. Pp. x+146+[4](colophon, publisher's device and blanks)+viii+136+[4], title page with decorative border designed by Herbert P. Horne; med. 8vo; qr. canvas over grey papered boards, spines and upper boards lettered in gilt, the boards lightly foxed, fore-corners bruised, some silverfishing to the canvas Volume II; t.e.g., others uncut; ribbon markers; free endpapers offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society Ltd, London, 1913. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. The Riccardi Press Books Octavo Series. Ransom p. 396, 4. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on both upper pastedowns, plus the earlier bookplate of Robert Skinner on the upper pastedown of Volume I. With the Medici Society printed Book Mark loosely inserted in Volume I.
Synopsis
Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel by Walter Pater (published 1885), set in the Rome of the Antonines. It elaborates Pater's ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty tempered by asceticism, and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal in itself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165489
- Title
- MARIUS THE EPICUREAN: His sensations and ideas
- Author
- Pater, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Philip Lee Warner
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Device
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- Leaves
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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