1918 The Candle of Vision

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

A very scarce signed first edition of this collection of transcendental essays on Celtic mysticism from Irish Nationalist and mystic George William Russell, written under his pseudonym,  Æ, or A.E.

Uncut to the head of the title page.

A signed author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto to the front endpaper, 'For Mrs Law, from her friend AE'.

Charlotte Anne Law, often known as Lota Law, was the wife of Hugh Alexander Law, an Irish nationalist politician.

At their family home, Marble Hill House in Donegal, the Law's hosted George William Russell on a number of occasions. Russell would stay in the children's house in the grounds of Marble Hill House, which was known as the 'Fairy House'. It was apparently here that found his strongest psychic insights, spending his time there hunting for fairies in their woods.

Russell's essays describe excursions into the otherworld, including clairvoyant and prophetic visions, precognition of Gnostic concepts, and attempts to construct a private Kabala based on an intuitive reconstruction of a primal language and alphabet.

With three pages of advertisements to the rear.