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WALTER PATER’S COPY Aids to Reflection, Edited by the Reverend Derwent Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Walter Pater’s copy of Coleridge’s essays, inscribed with his name on the front flyleaf, preceding the half title. Pater signs himself in blue bl… Read more
Published in 1866 by Edward Moxon.
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Walter Pater’s copy of Coleridge’s essays, inscribed with his name on the front flyleaf, preceding the half title. Pater signs himself in blue black ink.

The book is bound in Victorian tree calf with marbled edges to the text block and endpapers. The spine has been sympathetically relaid and the hinges renewed. A little browning to endpapers otherwise a very good copy. No discernible annotations to the text.

CONTEXT Coleridge’s creative output was a lifelong concern for Walter Pater: ‘Coleridge’s Writings’ was his very first publication in the Westminster Review in the year of our book’s publication, 1866, and Pater would go on to contribute a Coleridge critical introduction to Thomas Ward’s The English Poets, describing how his ‘prose writings on philosophy, politics, religion and criticism, were but one element in a whole life-time of endeavours to present the then recent metaphysics of Germany to English readers’. Pater’s chapter on Coleridge in Appreciations, 1889, is one of his most admired pieces of writing.

Himself a superb stylist, Walter Pater’s approach to art was taken as a manifesto of the aesthetic movement. After his death in 1894 Pater’s books were gradually dispersed by younger members of his family, a task completed by the Ottley sisters with the result that there remains much debate about which editions he owned. Of this one there can be no such uncertainty.




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Date published 1866
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