Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Crowd Draws Away from Pharos
A dark-clad elderly man stands apart as the richly dressed gallery visitors draw back around him. Their turned heads and shifting positions expose a space in the crowd. The frontispiece introduces the unsettling presence of Pharos in Boothby’s supernatural novel.
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John H. Bacon. "The Crowd Draws Away from Pharos" [editorial title]. In Pharos, the Egyptian, Guy Boothby; illustrations by John H. Bacon. 1899 edition, 1899, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. Source scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0456-0004
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John H. Bacon. The Crowd Draws Away from Pharos. Pharos, the Egyptian. Scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0456-0004