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Second printing. Hard cover, 12mo in green cloth with pictorial Art Nouveau design blocked in two shades of gold to the front board, consisting of the bust of a long-haired, star-crowned figure sporting butterfly wings, and trailing roses falling to the title lettered at the bottom of the front board. Titles to spine. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, USA. Top edge gilt, 281 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's advertising. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Slight rubbing to front decoration. Cracked rear hinge. Otherwise clean and bright.**This story introduces us to "Pagan" Wasteney, a sensitive young gentleman, prone to libertine excess, in search for meaning, and at sea among Edwardian society's changing notions of modern life, family and duty. Adeline Wood comes to London from a rural home and proceeds to enter the "Fairyland" of an a new -found independent existence as a book binder with her own lodgings; a model new woman of the twentieth century. When the two cross paths, life will never be the same...This work has elements of Symbolism, which Norbert Wolf describes (talking about the art of this period) as "where a realistic depiction of the natural world gives way to imaginary dream scenes of psychological, sexual and mystical content." **British-born Author Richard Le Gallienne, (1866-1947) while thrice married, was also famous for a youthful relationship with Oscar Wilde. Sometimes described as the latter's "acolyte," the two continued a correspondence in later years. N. Wolf, "Symbolism "(2019). Decorative Designers book cover attribution is by Alan Carroll.
Ref: FICT20 9834
$245.00