The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales
London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head and Dodd, Mead, 1924.
Hardcover. Near Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First illustrated edition, and the first to include Lawrence's Introduction. 8vo, pp. xviii, 279, with 28 lovely full-page plates and additional illustrations in the text. Publisher's black cloth illustrated in gilt and orange. Very slight rubbing to boards, else fine. In the original dust jacket, with illustration matching front board. Price-clipped, one tiny chip to head of spine. A much-admired collection of fantastic tales first published in 1888. In the new introduction written for this edition, Lawrence praises the merits of the British Museum reading room (which Garnett supervised, before becoming Keeper of Printed Books) before moving on to the work itself, of which he writes, "It wants no learning to enjoy the Twilight of the Gods; but the more learning you have, the more odd corners and hidden delights you will find in it." O'Brien A090.
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