ANNOTATED BY ‘THE CONNOISSEUR’ & FRIEND OF ERNEST JONES - Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. Volume One: The Young Freud 1856-1900

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Signed and inscribed by Ernest Jones in black ink to the front free endpaper: “Paul the connoisseur / Ernest Jones”. The work has been heavily annotated to certain sections – most likely by the unidentified recipient, Paul – with many bold underlings and marginal lines, crosses and question marks, as well as occasional verbal notations, in pencil and black, red, and green ink. The chapter concerning “Self-Analysis” (discussing Freud’s Oedipus Complex) has garnered the annotator’s closest attention, along with the sections detailing the development of Freud’s other early theories, with the four different writing implements, along with finger-marking to these sections, apparently indicating numerous re-readings. Indeed, the apparent intensity of the annotator’s engagement with the text is perhaps an indication as to why Jones referred to him as “the connoisseur”.

First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Publisher’s original blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with 10 black and white photographic plates. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with rubbing to the boards and spine and a touch of wear to the corners. The contents with light scattered foxing to the endpapers and textblock edges are otherwise in very good order.

First volume of Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst Alfred Ernest Jones’s (1879-1958) biography of Sigmund Freud. A second and third volume followed in 1955 and 1957, respectively.