MACHEN (ARTHUR, 1863-1947, Welsh novelist and essayist, member of the Order of the Golden Dawn with Yeats and Aleister Crowley) FINE ETCHED STYLISED PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR MACHEN by Frederick Carter (1885-1967), painter, etcher and author, head and shoulders, full face wearing a trilby hat, signed by the artist and sitter below the image, and inscribed by Carter to W.J.G. [John Gawsworth] 'in the pub parlour' [the King's Arms near Machen's house at Amersham, according to a note in pencil on the verso], 1 page, quarto, slight crease down right-hand plate line, overall size 10½ x 8 inches, no date

A drawing by Frederick Carter of John Gawsworth and Arthur Machen was illustrated in Thomas Bruce's Will Someone Lead Me to a Pub, 1936. Carter was involved with Oman Spare in Form. The present portrait reflects Carter's use of the woodblock.

£550