An Imaginary Portrait

Walter Horatio Pater, brilliant essayist and art critic, was a key figure in the Aesthetic Movement at Oxford. His series of semi-autobiographical “Imaginary Portraits” embraced intellectual, aesthetic, and sensual themes. The first of these essays, “The Child in the House,” appeared in MacMillan’s Magazine in 1878. Daniel issued it in this lightly revised version less than two months before Pater died. It was sold at a Venetian fête to support the parish of St. Thomas.

Accompanied by the prospectus for the book and a letter from Pater to Arthur Symons, British poet and critic.