Gold Like Glass.

Carter (Frederick)

Gold Like Glass.

A Tale.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 1/20 COPIES with a signed frontispiece etching by the author (from an edition of 200 copies), the etching faintly spotted to border, pp. [16], crown 8vo, original blue buckram, backstrip faded with gilt lettering largely rubbed away, slightly knocked to top corner of upper board, edges untrimmed, good

Publication Details: Twyn Barlwm Press, 1932

Notes: Inscribed by the author (and artist) on the title-page: 'John Gawsworth from Frederick Carter'. The recipient, a poet and editor, was also the publisher of this work - Carter subsequently illustrated his 'Flesh of Cypris'.The etching, only present in these special copies, is of 'The Wandering Jew in Eternity', the central figure of this supernatural short story, in which the narrator - like the author, an artist - encounters an enigmatic fellow in possession of 'the egg of the philosophers in which the secret of creation is revealed'.Frederick Carter, a Yorkshire artist, was associated at po...moreInscribed by the author (and artist) on the title-page: 'John Gawsworth from Frederick Carter'. The recipient, a poet and editor, was also the publisher of this work - Carter subsequently illustrated his 'Flesh of Cypris'.The etching, only present in these special copies, is of 'The Wandering Jew in Eternity', the central figure of this supernatural short story, in which the narrator - like the author, an artist - encounters an enigmatic fellow in possession of 'the egg of the philosophers in which the secret of creation is revealed'.Frederick Carter, a Yorkshire artist, was associated at points with Aleister Crowley, D.H. Lawrence, Austin Osman Spare, et al.; as these contacts would suggest, his work often embodied mystical themes. HIDE

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