This month, the featured books come with an interesting prior owner history, and literary provenance. The books featured, some which are personally inscribed and dated, were presumably once owned by Olivia Shakespear, the novelist, playwright, patron of the arts and friend of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and James Joyce. Although her literary endeavours (she wrote six novels), during her lifetime ( 1863- 1938) was over shadowed by her association with more famous, male literary figures her work her writing is now being critically appraised and evaluated by contemporary literary scholars.
The books featured form a fascinating insight into the reading habits and tastes of a largely, long-forgotten and ignored female writer, whose contribution to literature, is now being taken seriously. Your chance to own a fascinating slice of literary history.
The books are:
Prometheus: Or Biology and the Advancement of Man (H.S. Jennings)
Lars Porsena or the future of swearing (Robert Graves)
Eleutheros (J.F. Roxburgh)
Hymen or The Future of Marriage (Norman Haire)
Narcissus- An Atomy of Clothes (Gerald Heard)
Daedalus or Science & the Future ( J.B. S. Haldane)
Eos or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony (J.H. Jeans)
All titles published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (Circa 1920s). In good condition & Original burgundy boards.
This month, the featured books come with an interesting prior owner history, and literary provenance. The books featured, some which are personally inscribed and dated, were presumably once owned by Olivia Shakespear, the novelist, playwright, patron of the arts and friend of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and James Joyce. Although her literary endeavours (she wrote six novels), during her lifetime ( 1863- 1938) was over shadowed by her association with more famous, male literary figures her work her writing is now being critically appraised and evaluated by contemporary literary scholars.
The books featured form a fascinating insight into the reading habits and tastes of a largely, long-forgotten and ignored female writer, whose contribution to literature, is now being taken seriously. Your chance to own a fascinating slice of literary history.
The books are:
Prometheus: Or Biology and the Advancement of Man (H.S. Jennings)
Lars Porsena or the future of swearing (Robert Graves)
Eleutheros (J.F. Roxburgh)
Hymen or The Future of Marriage (Norman Haire)
Narcissus- An Atomy of Clothes (Gerald Heard)
Daedalus or Science & the Future ( J.B. S. Haldane)
Eos or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony (J.H. Jeans)
All titles published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (Circa 1920s). In good condition & Original burgundy boards.
