Item #70828 The Focus of Life ( Redux ) [ "The Focus of Life" With The First Ever Reproduction of the Original Colour Artist's Folio ]. Austin Osman SPARE, author and, Frederick Carter, Francis Marsden. With new, Robert Ansell, Phil Baker, Austin Osman SPARE, author.
The Focus of Life ( Redux ) [ "The Focus of Life" With The First Ever Reproduction of the Original Colour Artist's Folio ].
The Focus of Life ( Redux ) [ "The Focus of Life" With The First Ever Reproduction of the Original Colour Artist's Folio ].
The Focus of Life ( Redux ) [ "The Focus of Life" With The First Ever Reproduction of the Original Colour Artist's Folio ].
The Focus of Life ( Redux ) [ "The Focus of Life" With The First Ever Reproduction of the Original Colour Artist's Folio ].

The Focus of Life ( Redux ) [ "The Focus of Life" With The First Ever Reproduction of the Original Colour Artist's Folio ].

London: Fulgur Limited, 2012. Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Small folio. Eccentrically paginated, 128pp. Vellum backed cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Colour and b&w plates. This deluxe edition limited to 88 hand-numbered copies (this being copy No. 9), and is signed by editor/publisher, Robert Ansell. "The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aãos", is arguably the most biographically significant of all Spare’s published works. Often obscure, magical and fragmentary, it invites exploration of a strange Nietzschean landscape through what Spare termed ‘the labyrinth of the alphabet.’ The recent discovery of Spare’s original conceptual folio for the book, once owned by the respected writer E.M. Forster, has revealed an unseen series of powerful magico-erotic drawings – termed by Spare ‘blasphemous Ideographs’ – that provide an important key to understanding the ‘secret ritual of Self-Love’ that underlies this evocative and deeply personal work. This new issue of The Focus of Life provides readers with a high quality facsimile of the 1921 first edition, together with a full colour facsimile of the newly discovered conceptual folio for the project. Drawings too explicit for publication in 1921 have thus been reunited with the magical narrative, providing new insight for those exploring the artist’s life and magical philosophy. These important works are further augmented with critical essays from Phil Baker and Robert Ansell.' From the collection of Austin Osman Spare's bibliographer, Clive Harper, with his discrete book-label neatly tipped in at the rear. In addition to his Spare bibliography Harper is well-known for updating the Aleister Crowley bibliography in the 2011 Teitan Press collection of Gerald Yorke's writings, and as someone who has lent his expertise to numerous other publications. The label can easily be removed without affecting the page, although it would be a shame not to preserve this record of the book's provenance. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Housed in near Fine cloth bound slipcase. Item #70828

Price: $425.00

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