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1911 FLOREAT ETONA Eton College SIGNED BY RALPH NEVILL to POET DOUGLAS AINSLIE
1911 FLOREAT ETONA Eton College SIGNED BY RALPH NEVILL to POET DOUGLAS AINSLIE
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Floreat Etona
Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College
By Ralph Nevill
This copy was signed and presented to the Poet Douglas Ainslie by the author (see images). Ainslie was educated at Eton
Published by Macmillan, London, 1911. First Edition. Blue cloth binding, gilt to top edge, plain endpapers, pp xii, 336 including the index, with 8 colour plates and 13 b&w illustrations
An amusing glimpse at prestigious academy.
CONDITION
A very good clean copy. The cloth binding is good but has a thin white line running down the spine. Endpapers good. All contents present including all colour and b&w plates. Pages very clean throughout and free from foxing, stains etc. No writing or names other that that of the author's inscription. Overall very good.
Douglas Ainslie (1865–27 March 1948), was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat. He was born in Paris, France, and educated at Eton College and at Balliol and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. A contributor to the Yellow Book, he met and befriended Oscar Wilde at age twenty-one while an undergraduate at Oxford. He was also associated with other such notable figures as Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Pater and Marcel Proust. The first translator of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce into English, he also lectured on Hegel. He was identified as the "Dear Ainslie" recipient of twelve letters written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1895 - 1896, which were auctioned by Christie's in 2004.
Ainslie was a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
He also revered the Indian sage Sri Ramana Maharshi who taught the truth of Non-dualism ('Advaita") and visited him in 1935 at his ashram in Thiruvannamalai in Southern India.
Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College
By Ralph Nevill
This copy was signed and presented to the Poet Douglas Ainslie by the author (see images). Ainslie was educated at Eton
Published by Macmillan, London, 1911. First Edition. Blue cloth binding, gilt to top edge, plain endpapers, pp xii, 336 including the index, with 8 colour plates and 13 b&w illustrations
An amusing glimpse at prestigious academy.
CONDITION
A very good clean copy. The cloth binding is good but has a thin white line running down the spine. Endpapers good. All contents present including all colour and b&w plates. Pages very clean throughout and free from foxing, stains etc. No writing or names other that that of the author's inscription. Overall very good.
Douglas Ainslie (1865–27 March 1948), was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat. He was born in Paris, France, and educated at Eton College and at Balliol and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. A contributor to the Yellow Book, he met and befriended Oscar Wilde at age twenty-one while an undergraduate at Oxford. He was also associated with other such notable figures as Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Pater and Marcel Proust. The first translator of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce into English, he also lectured on Hegel. He was identified as the "Dear Ainslie" recipient of twelve letters written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1895 - 1896, which were auctioned by Christie's in 2004.
Ainslie was a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
He also revered the Indian sage Sri Ramana Maharshi who taught the truth of Non-dualism ('Advaita") and visited him in 1935 at his ashram in Thiruvannamalai in Southern India.
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