Essays From the Guardian

Portland: Thomas B. Mosher 1898, 2nd edition. (Three-quarter leather) 163pp. Very good plus. Finely bound with blue cloth over blue leather with gilt decorated spine panels with raised bands. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, frontispiece, publsiher's device on title page, vignettes. One of 400 copies of a limited edition. (Ideas, Essays, Guardian,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

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… Read more about this item

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. … Read more about this item

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.

Chiswick Press, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. 163 pages. Book includes nine essays that Pater wrote anonymously for the 'Guardian.' First edition (first printing). A very good copy in paper over board covers with browned paper spine label. Spine edges are chipped. Mild edge wear. #60/100 copies printed for private circulation.

Cambridge University Press, 2011-11-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897 One of 400 copies. In the publisher's original gray paper-covered boards with label on spine.. Illus. by Frontis.. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. A beautiful unread hardcover copy, rebound in half-leather with five raised bands at spine and gilt lettering; rubbed at front corners. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1914.

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… Read more about this item

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1898. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. 2nd edition in heavily tanned/darkened dust jacket. Original paper covered boards with title plate affixed to spine. Mild darkening to boards, otherwise very good+. Rough cut textblock edges. Sound binding. Previous owner's name in fountain pen front free end page. Clean interiors. Overall remarkably well preserved. Stated:… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

Cambridge University Press, 2011-11-10. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Walter Pater (1839-94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. Published alongside Pater's collected works of 1900-1, this collection reprints his literary essays from The Guardian, composed in the late 1880s. They include reviews of new publications of English and French poetry and prose.

Portland, Me.: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. Facsimile of 1896 edition, one of 400 copies; bound in grey paper boards, sans DW; frontispiece; newspaper essays on literature and poetry; 163pp.. Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

BiblioLife, 2008-08-20. Hardcover. Good.

BiblioLife, 2008-08-20. Hardcover. Used:Good.