Glastonbury The Isle of Avalon Illustrated Guide Containing A Concise History of the Abbey and Other Places of Interest. undersize AS NEW

Glastonbury: The Abbey Bookstall, No Date, circa 1950. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy octavo, [18.75cm/7.5inches], paperbound with blue pictorial covers, pp. 36. Illustrated with b-w halftone plates as well as textual sketches. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community where communities have grown up to include people with New Age beliefs. In a 1904 novel by Charles Whistler entitled A Prince of Cornwall Glastonbury in the days of Ine of Wessex is portrayed. It is also a setting in the Warlord Chronicles, a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell. Modern fiction has also used Glastonbury as a setting including The Age of Misrule series of books by Mark Chadbourn in which the Watchmen appear, a group selected from Anglican priests in and around Glastonbury to safeguard knowledge of a gate to the Otherworld on top of Glastonbury Tor. John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is set in Glastonbury and is concerned with the Grail.The first Glastonbury Festivals were a series of cultural events held in summer, from 1914 to 1926. The festivals were founded by English socialist composer Rutland Boughton and his librettist Lawrence Buckley. Apart from the founding of a national theatre, they envisaged a summer school and music festival based on utopian principles. With strong Arthurian connections and historic and prehistoric associations, Glastonbury was chosen to host the festivals.The more recent Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, founded in 1970, is now the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in the world. Although it is named for Glastonbury, it is held at Worthy Farm between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the town of Glastonbury.