DEFENESTRATE-BASCULE, Orryelle.

Solve. A Graphic Grimoire [ deluxe edition with an additional original drawing loosely inserted ].

London: Fulgur Limited, 2012. First Edition - Edition Deluxe. Hardcover. Quarto. 80 pages. Quarter morocco leather over black cloth boards, lettered in white, with artistic embellishments in blind. Illustrated throughout. Edition deluxe, limited to 88 hand-numbered copies, SIGNED by the author. INCLUDED with this copy is an ORIGINAL SIGNED ARTWORK by Orryelle in the form of a 10 3/4 x 8 inch pencil sketch on thick black paper - depicting a crowned shaman type figure, leaning forward into a huge cauldron (note, this was purchased separately by the owner, the volume was not issued with a drawing). The book is the third volume in the four volume Tela Quadrivum series following "Coagula". Solve takes the reader further into the alchemical process begun in Orryelle's previous volume for Fulgur. Says the author/artist: "SOLVE dissolves the gold distilled in COAGULA, tears apart our egos, dismembers our bodies and hurls any conceptions of perfection back into the primal void. Herein lies death, destruction, and the Prima Materia, the base matter, the Al Khem – the fertile black soil of decomposing forms, the compost for new growth. In an exploration of the Nigredo, or Blackening phase, of Alchemy, the concepts of Black Magic are re-examined in this ThanatErotic tome of the backward winding path; from the darkness of the womb to the darkness of the tomb…" The sketch is in fine condition, wrapped in black tissue and loosely inserted at the rear of the volume. The book is "as new" - thus Fine in Fine mylar wrapped dust jacket housed in a lightly rubbed black cloth slipcase. Item #68549

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