The Platonist, edited by Thomas Moore Johnson
Volume IV No. 5, May 1888 (undated; date established from iapsop archives)
Association copy from the Libary of James Morgan Pryse (Signed twice)
A rare original issue of late 19th-century Neoplatonist esoteric periodical featuring the first appearance of Isaac Myer’s translation of On Dreams by Synesius, alongside works attributed to Porphyry and Damascius and a range of contemporary essays on philosophy, religion, and occultism.
The editor Thomas Moore Johnson was a recognized authority on Plato and the Neoplatonists. He served as a key conduit for the revival of Platonic and mystical thought in the English-speaking world.
An association copy from the library of James Morgan Pryse (1859–1942), American thosophist and publisher associated with the broader late 19th-century occult revival. His name is signed twice: once in pencil on the title page and again in ink at the bottom of page 109. Pryse is known to have corresponded with Thomas Moore Johnson with several of their exchanges published in Letters to the Sage.
Condition: Cloth bound with paper-covered boards, the book is in acceptable condition only, cloth torn along the joints with heavily worn covers, dampstaining mostly to the endpapers and edges of some leaves, with a few pencil marks (likely from James M. Pryse),in acceptable condition only