Binding by Althea Gyles for W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Secret Rose’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for ‘The Secret Rose’

Althea Gyles

1897

Cloth binding

9¾ x 7 inches

Gyles’s most famous design is another combination of esoteric symbolism and naturalism. Though published for a general audience, its iconography is only intelligible to members of the occult organization, the Golden Dawn.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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