The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr. Henry More, Late Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. By Richard Ward, A. M. ..To which are annexed Divers Philosophical Poems and Hymns. Edited by M. F. Howard. (London, The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1911).
Signature of Sylvia Townsend Warner to front endpaper, some pencil marks to margins and one pencil marginal note.
19.5 x 13 cms. 310 pages, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 2 plates.
One passage marked in pencil is about More's delight in nature "He hath profess'd soberly to some; "That he hath been sometimes almost Mad with Pleasure"..and that "walking abroad after his Studies, his Sallies towards Nature would be often inexpressibly enravishing, and beyond what he could convey to others".
Henry More was associated with the Cambridge Platonists of the 17th century and his ideas were of interest to Madame Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy.