Thomas sturge moore illus (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1925. Limited Edition of 500 copies signed by translator H.P.R. Finberg of which this is no. 6. Octavo; publisher's white gilt-embossed cloth designed by Thomas Struge Moore, top edge gilt; 294,[2]pp.; black and white illustrations throughout. Rubbing to edges, spine a touch soiled; some minor smudging. Binding sound. Off-setting to endpapers, interior else unmarked; a Very Good or better copy. Major work that French symbolist author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam considered his masterpiece and which Yeats here describes as "part of a religious rite, the ceremony perhaps of some secret Order wherein my generation had been initiated. Even those strange sentences so much in the manner of my time. did not seem so important as the symbols: the forest castle, the treasure, the lamp that had burned before Solomon.". Signed.…