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Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan; Ardizzone, Edward [illustrator].
In a Glass Darkly.
Publisher: Peter Davies, London;
Date of Publication: 1929
Stock Code: 14441
FIRST ARDIZZONE EDITION. Octavo, pp., vii, [1], 382. With frontispiece and five illustrated plates, and 153 additional illustrations by Edward Ardizzone within the text. Bound in the original publisher’s magenta cloth with black titles to spine. Cloth spine sunned and rubbed to spine tips. Lightly foxed to text-block edges and endpapers, contents clean and free from inscriptions and annotations. A very good copy. This is the first edition illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, one of the most distinctive printmakers of the 20th century. “In a Glass Darkly” was Ardizzone’s first major commission with the bold idiosyncratic illustrations establishing his name as an artist. The collection explores Le Fanu’s fascination with the occult and Swedenborgian mysticism and includes the groundbreaking sapphic vampire novella “Carmilla” as well as “Green Tea”, “The Familiar”, “Mr Justice Harbottle”, “The Room in the Dragon Volant”, and “Carmilla”.
£75.00