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Mackenzie, Sibyll Lillian (Countess of Cromartie).
The Web of the Past.
Publisher: Eveleigh Nash, London;
Date of Publication: 1905
Stock Code: 15621
First edition. Octavo, pp., 304. Publisher’s original scarlet cloth; titled in gilt to spine; white end-papers. Gift inscription dated 1914 in ink to front free end-paper. Spine cloth a little sunned and soiled; gilt tarnished; library shelf-mark stickers to spine; minor soiling to cloth. Occasional spotting but generally clean. A very good copy. Celtic historical and supernatural stories from a controversial dancer, aristocrat and clairvoyant. ‘The Finding of the Sword’ concerns a supernatural incursion into the present day following the discovery of a Celtic sword - it features supernatural apparitions, psychic magnetism and a vampiric transfer of strength. The author was a mystic, barefoot dancer (who had danced on stage with Isadora Duncan) and Scottish aristocrat whose behaviour saw her banished from the court of Edward VII. A very serviceable copy of a rare work of speculative fiction. £350.00