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Imaginary Portraits. Imaginary Portraits.

PATER, Walter Horatio. Imaginary Portraits. Macmillan & Co. 1903
Half title, 2pp ads; a little spotted. Uncut in orig. grey cloth. Contemp. signature on leading f.e.p.

¶First published in 1887. In 1878 in Macmillan's Magazine Pater published an evocative semi-autobiographical sketch entitled 'The Child in the House' about his childhood. This was to be the first of a dozen or so "Imaginary Portraits", a genre of Pater's own invention. The portraits consist of psychological studies of fictional characters in historical settings, often personifications of new concepts at turning-points in the history of ideas or emotion.
Stock #63007
£25


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