PATER, WALTER. Imaginary Portraits. London: Macmillan 1887. 8vo, original dark greenish-blue cloth, light wear at outer joints, top of spine and upper fore-corners, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Pater on the front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Rawlinson, with the Writer's kind regards." The recipient was undoubtedly Louisa Rawlinson, wife of the Rev. George Rawlinson, Pater's contemporary at Oxford (professor of ancient history from 1861 to 1869) and later the Canon of Canterbury. Rawlinson was well known for his translation of Herodotus, a copy of which, along with Rawlinson's book on the Venus de Milo, was repeatedly borrowed by Pater from the Brasenose College library (his college at Oxford). Colbeck Collection, vol. 2, p. 640.

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PATER, WALTER. Imaginary Portraits. London: Macmillan 1887. 8vo, original dark greenish-blue cloth, light wear at outer joints, top of spine and upper fore-corners, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Pater on the front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Rawlinson, with the Writer's kind regards." The recipient was undoubtedly Louisa Rawlinson, wife of the Rev. George Rawlinson, Pater's contemporary at Oxford (professor of ancient history from 1861 to 1869) and later the Canon of Canterbury. Rawlinson was well known for his translation of Herodotus, a copy of which, along with Rawlinson's book on the Venus de Milo, was repeatedly borrowed by Pater from the Brasenose College library (his college at Oxford). Colbeck Collection, vol. 2, p. 640.