The text is a group of short stories, combining the supernatural and a deep appreciation of the rights of the natural world, by the remarkable Algernon Blackwood, who reacted against a strict evangelical upbringing in favour of eastern mysticism, including for a while at least Theosophy.
In the introduction to a 2021 edition of Pan’s Garden, Blackwood’s biographer, Mike Ashley, describes this as “the definitive volume of Blackwood’s short stories: not because it necessarily contains all of his best work in the genre, although it certainly includes several stories that I consider to be his greatest, but because it defines the true nature of Blackwood’s writing.”
Unlike so much of Robertson’s illustrations, which features colour and heavy line, and that has a conventional prettiness, these works rely very heavily on a more sinuous line and stipple, and they are imbued with the mysterious quality of the Symbolists, with maybe a little Blakeian influence.
A tiny amount of wear to the tips of the binding, but essentially a fine copy.
