Description: Machen’s classic of mystical horror, partly inspired by his times visiting the river Usk and Welsh towns of Caerleon and Caerwent. He describes the novel as an attempt to ‘pass on the vague, indefinable sense of awe and mystery and terror that I had received’ from seeing ‘strange relics’ unearthed at Caerwent, the ruined temple of ‘Nodens, god of the depths.’ (Machen, A, 1922). London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Keynote Series, 1895. Second edition, published one year after the first. Hardcover. 168pp + 16 pages of adverts. Cover illustration & title page designed by Aubrey Beardsley. Publishers’ original black cloth illustrated with Beardsley's depiction of Pan with a flute in the vines, gilt-titles to spine with key symbol ‘1894’ rear boards. Neat bookplate of ‘Philip Broke’ pastedown, ink inscription to front-end paper, four lines of neat notes in ink to rear end-paper, cloth faded with one small stain to the front board, edges worn, corners rubbed, text clean. An excellent copy.
Price: 500 GBP
Location: Leeds
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Binding: Hardback
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Language: English
Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: John Lane, The Bodley Head
Original/Facsimile: Original
