Armed with Madness. With drawings by Jean Cocteau.

Bookseller Notes

The copy of publisher and translator, Roger Senhouse, with his neat pencil ownership inscription to the front pastedown, beside which his notes regarding Cocteau's contribution - the latter's drawings only included in this deluxe, large-paper edition.The first Taverner novel, followed by 'Death of Felicity Taverner' four years later; Butts recorded in her journal that it 'might well have been called "the Waste Land"' (expressing there some of the personal animosity between the two of them), and had some of the same intellectual background - her reading, like Eliot's, included Jessie L. Weston's 'From Ritual to Romance', as well as Jane Ellen Harrison and J.G. Frazer, to provide a 'new "looking-into" the Sanc Graal' (Butts, Journal, p. 263).