MARIUS THE EPICUREAN; His sensations and ideas
by PATER, Walter
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About This Item
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1913. Two volumes, large 8vo, pp. 146, 134. 1/1000 copies. On handmade Riccardi paper. Linen backed boards. Uncut. Covers somewhat worn and soiled, fine internally. The Riccardi Press for Philip Lee Warner was publisher to The Medici Society.
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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- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29859
- 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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