The Dark Lantern - 1951 - Henry Williamson (1895-1977)

Henry Williamson - The Dark Lantern - London, Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1951 - 1st edition - 432p. - Hardcover: cloth binding with gold-printed spine, with author's owl device as tailpiece - 13×19.60cm - Good copy: "Boots" bookshop label on the front cover; spine cloth riveted at the head (photo), sporadic foxing spots in the text block, old spot at the bottom of the text block from page 25 to about page 275, owner's stamp on the title page, date stamp on the back endpaper, front endpapers torn (binding intact - see photo), signs of use on the cover, gold print on the back weathered (worn away).

•      Henry William Williamson (1895–1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history and ruralism.
•      "The Dark Lantern" (1951) can be seen as the start of the major novel series 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' - a series of 15 novels following the life of Phillip Maddison from his birth in the late 1890s till the early 1950s , based loosely on Williamson's own life and experiences. If considered as one novel, it is one of the longest in English.
• Plot: Richard Maddison, a clerk in the City of London, struggles on a few shillings a week. He meets Hetty Turney, daughter of a prosperous city merchant and falls in love, but he is not the kind of man her father wants her to marry.
•      Dedication: Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973) was an English author, critic, and editor, probably best known as a biographer. After graduating from Oxford University, he co-founded and edited the periodical West Country, and also edited the series Macdonald Illustrated Classics. He was an expert in 19th-century literature, and wrote historical criticism of the Victorian era as well as biographies of Charles Reade, Thackeray, Thomas De Quincey, and others.

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