Walter Pater: ALS to George Allison Armour, 1889

RLIN ID No.

NYGG02-A23

Main Entry

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894.

Title

ALS: Brasenose College [Oxford], to George Allison Armour, New York City, [1889] Mar. 24.

Physical Description

1 item (2 p.)

Historical/Biographical Note

Walter Pater was a critic and humanist. Among his best known works are the romance Marius the Epicurean (1885) and Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873).

Scope and Contents Note

In this autograph letter Pater thanks George Allison Armour for sending him a copy of the Grolier Club edition of Philobiblon (1889), a 14^th century work by the English bibliophile Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham. Armour was a member of the Grolier Club, a New York City bibliophile society.

Names

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894. Correspondence.

Bury, Richard de, 1287-1345. Philobiblon. 1889.

Added Entries

Allison, George Armour, correspondent.

Grolier Club.

Location

Grolier Club, 47 East 60^th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022-1098.