novelnovelThe Ancient AllanThe Ancient Allanhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/449/original/ancientAllanFamousFantasticMysteriesDustJacket.jpg?1518808210Allan Quatermain and Lady Luna Ragnall team up in The Ancient Allan, an adventure that continues Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) and The Ivory Child (1916). Under the influence of the magical herb taduki, Ragnall and...Allan Quatermain and Lady Luna Ragnall team up in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Ancient Allan</span>, an adventure that continues <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/novels/4"><span style="font-style:italic;">Allan and the Holy Flower</span></a> (1915) and <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/novels/46"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Ivory Child</span></a> (1916). Under the influence of the magical herb taduki, Ragnall and Quatermain experience a shared past life as lovers in ancient Egypt. <span style="font-style:italic;">Cassell’s Magazine</span> serialized <span style="font-style:italic;">AA</span> from March to October 1919, in a printing illustrated by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/7">Albert Morrow</a>. Cassell and Co., London, published the first edition of <span style="font-style:italic;">AA</span> on 12 February 1920, which was accompanied by a color dust jacket and eight monochrome illustrations by Morrow. 12,500 copies printed. The 5th printing of the Cassell and Co. edition published in 1934 included an illustrated dust jacket, but was not illustrated. In 1920 Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, published an edition that included a color frontispiece by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/16">Enos B. Comstock</a>. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Pocock, Tom. <span style="font-style:italic;">Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire</span>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicoloson, 1993. 187, 201.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F48, 64-65.</p>
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The Ancient Allan
Allan Quatermain and Lady Luna Ragnall team up in The Ancient Allan, an adventure that continues Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) and The Ivory Child (1916). Under the influence of the magical herb taduki, Ragnall and Quatermain experience a shared past life as lovers in ancient Egypt.
Cassell’s Magazine serialized AA from March to October 1919, in a printing illustrated by Albert Morrow. Cassell and Co., London, published the first edition of AA on 12 February 1920, which was accompanied by a color dust jacket and eight monochrome illustrations by Morrow. 12,500 copies printed. The 5th printing of the Cassell and Co. edition published in 1934 included an illustrated dust jacket, but was not illustrated. In 1920 Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, published an edition that included a color frontispiece by Enos B. Comstock.
Further Reading
Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicoloson, 1993. 187, 201.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F48, 64-65.
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