APOCALYPSE IN ENGLAND: A Critical Study of Frederick Carter.
London: Jerusalem Press, 2024. Limited to 400 Copies, each copy hand-numbered. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY, sewn, splendid color plate section, with illustrated endpapers, tail bands, foil-blocked boards, and an illustrated dust jacket. Frederick Carter mixed with many of the key figures of the British Occult and Decadent milieu, many being close friends and confidantes, such as most notably, Austin Osman Spare and Arthur Machen, well known author and Golden Dawn member. Carter was a devotee of art as expressed through the power of the subconscious, and his experimentation with automatic drawing between 1915 and 1924, along with fellow symbolist Austin Osman Spare, confirmed his deep interest in the method, which he hoped would prove a means of releasing suppressed associations and images from the subliminal and astral. These studies, and his deep interest in alchemy, and other aspects of the supernatural and occult, led him to produce works of sublime esoteric symbolism, especially his masterwork, "The Dragon of the Alchemists". Greville Clark's volume features an unprecedented access to the artist/writer's rich personal archive of diaries, memoirs, sketchbooks, and artworks, and provides his first-hand encounters with many figures from the esoteric London circles of Bohemian artists, writers, publishers and intellectuals, including a dinner party with Aleister Crowley, which ended in a venomous spat between the Beast and his current jilted lover. An account of a visit to Austin Spare in order to meet W.H. Davies, the Welsh poet, and a extraordinary drug experiment with George Raffalovich, Crowley's friend and disciple. Richly-illustrated throughout with unpublished examples of Carter's exquisite line-drawings, etchings of London, and mystical woodcuts, and over 300 black and white illustrations. 380 pages, indexed. Small 4to. Retail: $79.95 plus post. - Special Sale Price. Item #20306
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