PATER , WALTER: - Marius the Epicurean : His Sensations and Ideas : Volume Ii

Macmillan 1918 reprint H/Back blue cloth boards VG some pages at end not cut at top some foxing rough cut pages 224pp 9 x 6 515g ¶ '"Marius the Epicurean" is an imaginary historical portrait in which Marius, the detached observer, is offered as a kind of self-portrait of Pater transferred to the Rome of Marcus Aurelius. Marius speculates on various views of art and life, with the love of art for art's sake advocated, as is the moral obligation to lead a good and ordered life'. There is a previous owners name inside the book