[BALLARAT] The intellectual life

London : Macmillan and Co., 1875. Second edition. Octavo, full polished calf by Bickers of London, edges rubbed, spine in compartments with gilt rule and ornamentation, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, upper hinge a little cracked, etched portrait frontispiece of Leonardo da Vinci by Leopold Flameng, pp. xxx; 455, contemporary gift inscription to preliminary blank ‘To dear Janet from her true and loving friend – Ellen. Ballarat 1882’.

The Intellectual Life is a timeless self-improvement and philosophical guide written by the English author and artist Philip Gilbert Hamerton, first published in 1873. This copy was presented as a gift between two intellectual women in Ballarat in 1882.