Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Visit to the Moonites’ City
A very tall figure stands among much smaller people beneath unfamiliar buildings and arches. Their difference in scale gives the meeting its fantastic character. The adjoining lunar episode describes the narrator’s encounter with the Moonites in the book’s speculative travel narrative.
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Illustrator not identified. "A Visit to the Moonites’ City" [editorial title]. In Life in a Thousand Worlds, Rev. W. S. Harris. G. Holzapfel, sole manufacturer, Cleona, Pennsylvania; undated title., undated edition, G. Holzapfel. Source scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0441-0045
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
An illustration of an imagined inhabited world in Harris’s speculative religious narrative. The surrounding photographed book page has been cropped to the original picture.
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Illustrator not identified. A Visit to the Moonites’ City. Life in a Thousand Worlds. Scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0441-0045