Walter Pater - Appreciations - First Edition, William Ernest Henley's Copy

PATER, Walter (1839-1894).

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1889.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 264. Publisher's dark green cloth, titles in gilt to spine, untrimmed edges.

Ownership of William Ernest Henley to title page, with a later gift inscription to Katharine de Mattos to same and to flyleaf. Some toning and dustiness to edges. Cloth rather worn and rubbed with some slight loss to spine ends and joints. Very good.

Inscribed by William Ernest Henley to Katharine de Mattos, the Scottish author, journalist and cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson.