The Candle of Vision. London: MacMillan, 1919. Third Impression. Pp viii, 175, [4], uncut. Blue cloth titled in gilt, a very good copy.

Inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper, with portrait to front pastedown.  ‘To my dear James Pryse this works is inscribed humbly by his old friend, AE’

James Morgan Pryse (1859 – 1942) was an author, publisher & member of the esoteric religious movement the Theosophical Society. 

Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell’s collection of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (which is short for Aeon), Russell was friends with many other figures of the Celtic renaissance of the early 20th century, including W.B. Yeats, and James Stephens.