THE BOOK OF PLEASURE (SELF-LOVE): The Book of Psychology
London: Jerusalem Press, 2023. Limited to 100 Hand Numbered Copies of which this 34, signed by Michael Staley, Alan Moore, William Wallace, and Stephen Pochin; Bound in full black Morocco, and placed in a matching silk slipcase, and features illustrated endpapers, silk marker, and divider pages, which are overprinted with designs by Spare in silk varnish. The pages are in silk, and uncoated paper-stocks. A special limited print by Ben Thompson, with number keyed to the volume [34/100], is laid in the rear of the deLuxe copy. Resplendent with full-page symbolist illustrations representing some of the artist’s most beautiful draughtsmanship. It is also festooned with Spare’s automatic drawings and sigils; xxv, 99 pages; Includes 30 page booklet containing Pleasure, Sanity, & Photography by Stephen Pochin and A Pre-Bretonian Advocacy of Automatism in Art by Joseph Masheck, also numbered and signed by Pochin; xxxv, 99 pages. Item #32336
Hardbound in fine condition in fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00