A Book of Images Drawn by W. T. Horton

Author: W.B. Yeats & W. T. Horton

Book ID: 66654

Price: 350.00

A Book of Images Drawn by W. T. Horton and Introduced by W. B. Yeats. London: Unicorn Press, 1898. First Edition. Pp 61. Sixteen page introduction followed by pen & ink drawings by W.T. Horton. Pictorial yellow buckram boards, lettered in black. Light staining to covers, contents in nice bright condition.

Contains thirty-two images of mystical imaginary places created by Horton and selected by Yeats in the stark style of Aubrey Beardsley. Horton was inducted into the Golden Dawn Occult Society with Yeats as his sponsor.

‘A Book of Images! Is Horton’s masterpiece, representing a “synaesthesia of mystical visions,” as noted by Yeats in the introduction.

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