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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 151. Numbers 1, 2 and 3 complete - all published (1897-1898). Rebound in one volume. Number 1 contains 'Orlando' a 'Self-appreciation' by the then young Bertrand Russell ( a vaguely philosophical cri de coeur unattributed in the text). Rebound with original illustrated front wrappers, each with an urn design, bound in. Red buckram binding lettered gilt at the spine.Three small Birbeck Library blind stamps and a faint withdrawn stamp, bound in cover to third part repaired at edge else very good with clean text. Clipped autograph signature of Logan Pearsall Smith pasted to front pastedown. A genuinely rare periodical, seldom appearing in commerce. The introduction sets the mood--"The GoldenUrn is published by certain people of leisure and curiosity, who thought it worth while to print for their own entertainment some impressions of art and life, some experiments in letters. Appreciation, untrammelled thought, scholarship, its editors will welcomeÉ questions of aesthetics will be discussedÉ it will appear on unfixed dates and entirely at the pleasure of its editors; it is privately printed and will not be for sale. copies however will be sent - not without a feeling or, at least, an affectation of diffidence - to a few fastidious people." The elegant fantasy piece in the third issue 'Altamura' was a collaboration between Pearsall Smith and Berenson and burlesques the life and ideals of an artists retreat not unlike their own circle at Fiesole. The last piece in the magazine is an amazing extensive list by Mary and Bernard Berenson of the greatest Italian Renaissance pictures in the world (Sacred Pictures) with their locations in every country, some in private hands in America and England -'.the study of them are regarded as acts of piety, and very helpful, though not exactly necessary, to Salvation.". Signedes.