The Renaissance: Studies in Art & Poetry by Walter Pater [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1959 orwellian ILLUSTRATED SANDGLASS EDITION [1974] THE

ILLUSTRATED SANDGLASS EDITION [1974] THE HERITAGE PRESS

the book argues that the era of diminishing chivalry reflected the spirit of an age and that its figures and events were neither a prelude to the Renaissance nor harbingers of a coming culture

Dust jacket has a touch of shelf wear but is otherwise excellent

Nice UK mass market paperback w/ cover showing portrait of Orwell by Peter Blake

Coraline by Neil Gaiman w/ original Illustrations by Dave McKean

The Renaissance: Studies in Art & Poetry by Walter Pater [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1959 orwellian ILLUSTRATED SANDGLASS EDITION [1974] THEThe Renaissance Studies in Art & Poetry by Walter Pater FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1959] MENTOR BOOKS Antique paperback, still Like new and unread; some mild shelf wear to cover tanning to pages; neat signature of orig. owner on 1st page. 'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates.