Pillar of inmost light
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The Bodley Head bookstore, a product of the partnership between Charles Elkin Matthews and John Lane, opened on Vigo Street of London’s West End in October 1887. This is in sync with John Lane’s goal to provide a product to those “who wanted access to the highest expressions of aristocratic ‘beauty’ at a cheap price” (Stetz and Lasner).
PILLAR OF INMOST LIGHT SERIES
The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light and other books in the series were aimed at a middle-class target audience. Period book reviews collected by the book’s previous owner indicate that Keynotes Series entries sold for one dollar in the United States at the time of publication, which roughly amounts to thirty dollars in today’s currency, placing Keynotes novels in the same price range as Penguin Hardback Classics are currently. Also advertised are The Belles Lettres and The Yellow Book, the Bodley Head’s literary periodical.
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The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light is number five in the series. Keynote Series authors and their works are listed numerically, seemingly in the order in which they were released. The book’s final pages serve as advertisements for John Lane & The Bodley Head’s other publications, most notably the Keynote Series. Baskerville typeface, which was the most popular of its day and age, serves as the book’s primary font. It seems the book’s previous owners were intent upon preserving it as best they could, because there are no annotations to be found within its pages. This is meant to preserve the text for multiple readings, as the deckle edge pages tear easily additionally, the wide margins allow for an abundance of annotations. The book’s pages have exceedingly wide margins compared to modern printings-the tail and fore edge occupying the most space. Differing from the rest of the book, the title page contains enlarged font printed in red ink. The rear cover bears the same ornate impression of a key featured on the binding, with the inclusion of the book’s printing date represented on each side of the key.
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Additionally, Beardsley’s portrayal of Pan is printed upon the book’s title page. The front cover boasts Beardsley’s decadent portrayal of Pan, grasping his flute and gazing into the beholder’s eyes. Its front cover, binding, and rear cover feature impressions of Aubrey Beardsley’s signature artwork, which became a staple of The Bodley Head’s printings. The book is formatted as an octavo, and is bound in dyed Crown Sovereign cloth. The first edition of The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light was printed in 1894 by John Lane & The Bodley Head. Arthur Machen and T he Great God Pan‘s influence resonates especially well in the modern horror genre. However, the wake of those artists’ efforts is recognizable in today’s works they have been immortalized in the Western canon. Unfortunately, as news of Oscar Wilde’s homosexuality and the pushback of social conservatives spread, the decadence movement and its progenitors ceased to produce that which brought them acclaim. Introduced to the general public through the Bodley Head’s seminal Keynotes Series, Machen and his macabre tales of the cosmos and the occult came to define the sinful decadence associated with the series’ entries. These artists orbited an evanescent but brilliant publisher, John Lane, and became arbiters of his publishing company, The Bodley Head. In a decade that produced some of Britain’s finest, most provocative literature-the “naughty” 1890’s-Machen and his tale of cosmic horror rose to the forefront of the literary landscape, alongside such other recognized artists as Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.
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It is a token of a short period in British history that seemed poised to usher in a new, intoxicating literary movement-that of decadence. The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light, written by Arthur Machen and published by The Bodley Head, is a work that exists outside the parameters and constraints of time. Lane, 1894.Īlden 5th Floor Archives and Special Collections PR6025.A245 G7 1894 The Great God Pan and the Inmost Light. Boston: Roberts London: J.