HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT. Autograph manuscript signed of "The Intellectual Life," with occasional revision in the text, n.d. [published 1873]. 695 pages, 8vo, written in pencil on rectos only, the leaves of foolscap paper gathered, punched at left margin and hand-tied in 36 booklets, a few ties lacking, occasional marginal fraying, last leaf defective at top with loss of a few lines, enclosed in quarter blue morocco folding case, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe . Accompanied by 9 ALS of R. Seeley of Seeley & Co, London, the publishers of The Portfolio and several of Hamerton's books, all regarding U.S. publication of Hamerton's Memoirs . In his preface, Hamerton proposes "to consider the possibilities of a satisfactory intellectual life under various conditions of ordinary human existence"; to consider and illustrate by example how an intellectual must succeed in "compelling every circumstance and condition of our lives to yield us some tribute of intellectual benefit and force..." The chapters, of varying lengths, are cast as philosophical epistles, titled, for example: "Letter to an Author Who Appreciated Contemporary Literature" and "Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Lived Much in Fashionable Society." Provenance : G.P. Hamerton (sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1895, lot 311).
HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT. Autograph manuscript signed of "The Intellectual Life," with occasional revision in the text, n.d. [published 1873]. 695 pages, 8vo, written in pencil on rectos only, the leaves of foolscap paper gathered, punched at left margin and hand-tied in 36 booklets, a few ties lacking, occasional marginal fraying, last leaf defective at top with loss of a few lines, enclosed in quarter blue morocco folding case, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe . Accompanied by 9 ALS of R. Seeley of Seeley & Co, London, the publishers of The Portfolio and several of Hamerton's books, all regarding U.S. publication of Hamerton's Memoirs . In his preface, Hamerton proposes "to consider the possibilities of a satisfactory intellectual life under various conditions of ordinary human existence"; to consider and illustrate by example how an intellectual must succeed in "compelling every circumstance and condition of our lives to yield us some tribute of intellectual benefit and force..." The chapters, of varying lengths, are cast as philosophical epistles, titled, for example: "Letter to an Author Who Appreciated Contemporary Literature" and "Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Lived Much in Fashionable Society." Provenance : G.P. Hamerton (sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1895, lot 311).
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