Beyond the Threshold...

A volume of imaginary dialogues between the dead, including Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, St Augustine, Plato and Nietzsche. The book was written by Ricketts under his pseudonym of Jean Paul Raymond, a device Ricketts again brought to bear in his Recollections of Oscar Wilde (Nonesuch Press, 1932), in which although the setting is contrived the episodes and conversations therein were drawn from the diaries and letters that he had kept. John Russell Taylor has remarked on the mysterious quality of the later book-cover designs by Ricketts, suggesting the possibility of a private symbolism.