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First edition in English, inscribed To Malcolm Morris with The Translator s Affectionate regards Lytton. Paris. 20. December. 1889 on the half-title to vol. I. Edler (1844 1931) was Professor of Poetry, Mythology and Theatre History at the Vienna Conservatoire. His genius is psychological and dramatic. All his works, whatever the form or the subject of them, are dramas of the inner life. But … he works by synthesis, rather than by analysis, and builds up his characters, instead of taking them to pieces. In his style there is no flourish of the anatomist s scalpel, in his work no odour of the dissecting-room. His characters are alive, and we hear the beating of their hearts … He has been justly praised as a colourist, but he does not aim at startling spectacular effects, and the peculiar merit of his colouring is in a subtle harmony between the pervading tone of the picture and the central idea of its design. That idea, moreover, is always beautiful, always graceful, and intellectually high-born. For Edler is not a literary photographer, but an ideal artist … (Translator s Preface). Wolff 4236; Sadleir 1464; Morgan 1418. 2 vols, 8vo (183 × 123 mm), pp. xliv, 289, [1]; [4], 291, [1]; titles printed in red and black; complete with half-titles; contemporary French green half morocco by Dodé, extremities rubbed, a little darkened, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, flyleaves browned due to paper stock. Seller Inventory # ABE-1594994447122
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