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Hardcover, 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles (no d/j), top edge colored ochre, 580 pp. Author Rachael Annand Taylor (1876-1960) was a Scottish lady poet, and one of the first females to study at the University of Aberdeen. She was also a journalist and teacher, as well as writing several non-fiction works about the Renaissance. She and her husband mixed in "Celtic Revival" circles in Dundee; her poetic works were criticized for a backward-looking Pre-Raphaelite medievalism. The current volume was undertaken after Taylor's resettlement in London, following separation from her husband. In the opening Note to this volume, the Oxford Classicist Gilbert Murray praises Taylor's "power of poetic interpretation" of her subject. The author gives this introduction to her topic: " If, in describing one side of the psychical history of Leonardo, I have contemplated the full tide of Renaissance energy as it sweeps around his art, have tried to restore the cities in which he dwelt, and to reanimate the people who decided his movements, it is because only this kind of indirect approach seemed to offer any novel angle from which to consider his unique and baffling figure." Includes nine black and white illustrations, various Appendixes, a Chronology, Bibliography and index. Condition : Very Good. Slight shelfwear, with two slightly bumped corners and a small imperfection near title. Hinges are intact, and the interior is very clean with minor age-toning.
Ref: ARTREN 7965
$40.00