Essays on Literature and Art (Everyman's Library)
Everyman Paperbacks / J.M. Dent, September 1990. Paper Back. 12mo. Previous owner's name in ink first page. [175 pp.]. More
Everyman Paperbacks / J.M. Dent, September 1990. Paper Back. 12mo. Previous owner's name in ink first page. [175 pp.]. More
The Modern Library, 1939. Cloth. 12mo. In tattered, torn dustjacket with darkened spine and light soiling. Flaps not clipped. 225 Modern Library titles listed on jacket verso. Flexible brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and stamped gold torchbearer colophon on front panel. Kent end papers in orange-brown..... More
Modern Library, 1950. Cloth. 12mo. Dustjacket is missing. Grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering within black rectangles on spine and front panel. Kent end pages with previous reader's name in ink ffep upper right hand corner. Dark grey textblock top stain. Dust stained to textblock edges top and fore-edge..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1987. Trade Paperback. Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the holy writ of beauty. Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa..... More
Thomas B. Mosher, 1898. Hardcover. 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..... More
Allworth Press, November 1997. Paper Back. Out of print for decades, the enchanting classics in this new edition will be welcomed by teachers and students of literature, art history, and aesthetics. Written by an esteemed nineteenth-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature, the "imaginary portraits" are fictionalized accounts of historic..... More