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Henry Adams, 1912
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Henry Adams, 1912
[ADAMS, Henry (1838-1918).] Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. Washington: Privately printed, 1912.
Revised and enlarged edition of Adams’s 1904 work. Really a companion to his Autobiography, Adams here describes the medieval world view as reflected in its cathedrals, which he believed expressed "an emotion, the deepest man ever felt—the struggle of his own littleness to grasp the infinite." This copy bears an inscription on the half title, “To dear Frank Potter from Aileen / Washington 1915.” Aileen was likely Aileen Tone, Adams’s adopted niece, companion, and housekeeper who was living with Adams in 1915. She died in her nineties in July 1969. The first edition of Mont Saint Michel and Chartres was published in an edition of 100 copies. BAL 37.
Quarto (322 x 243mm). Half title (a little creasing to lower edge of preliminary leaves, hinges tender). Original blue cloth, leather spine label (covers rubbed, label chipped, upper corners bumped). Provenance: Frank Potter (gift inscription) – Louis Auchincloss, 1917-2010 (autograph note loosely inserted).
Henry Adams, 1912
[ADAMS, Henry (1838-1918).] Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. Washington: Privately printed, 1912.
Revised and enlarged edition of Adams’s 1904 work. Really a companion to his Autobiography, Adams here describes the medieval world view as reflected in its cathedrals, which he believed expressed "an emotion, the deepest man ever felt—the struggle of his own littleness to grasp the infinite." This copy bears an inscription on the half title, “To dear Frank Potter from Aileen / Washington 1915.” Aileen was likely Aileen Tone, Adams’s adopted niece, companion, and housekeeper who was living with Adams in 1915. She died in her nineties in July 1969. The first edition of Mont Saint Michel and Chartres was published in an edition of 100 copies. BAL 37.
Quarto (322 x 243mm). Half title (a little creasing to lower edge of preliminary leaves, hinges tender). Original blue cloth, leather spine label (covers rubbed, label chipped, upper corners bumped). Provenance: Frank Potter (gift inscription) – Louis Auchincloss, 1917-2010 (autograph note loosely inserted).
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