The Book of Pleasure: The Psychology of Ecstasy, Austin Osman Spare
Limited to 900 hand-numbered copies, of which this is 522. With a hand-numbered lithographic ex-libris designed by Joseph F. Uccello laid in. First published by Spare in 1913, this book is resplendent with full page symbolist illustrations that represent some of the artist's most corrosive and beautiful draughtsmanship. It is also festooned with examples of his automatic drawing and sigils. This edition includes the 1913 introduction by Ernest H.R. Collings and the 1975 introduction by Kenneth Grant, along with newly commissioned essarys, from Alan Moore and Michael Staley.
London: Jerusalem Press, 2011. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white; pp. (xxvii), [8], 59, [1]. Illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, protected in archival mylar.