French, by Gaspar du Nord. 13th Century. Octavo. Handwritten manuscript, bound in decaying blue calfskin. Copiously and grotesquely illuminated with leering faces and obscene marginalia; there is a recurring, curious sigil that resembles a triskelion. Has clearly suffered at the hands of negligence and the elements in the past. Has a rich and earthy smell … Continue reading Selections de Livre D’ivon →

English, Unknown Author, 15th Century. Manuscript, embossed red leather cover seemingly of a later make than the interior. The embossed design is a sharply angled shape, loosely evocative of a pentagram. Archaic language, but of neat print. Periodically, plates appear to have been cut from the book. Pencil annotations in modern English appear frequently in … Continue reading The Pnakotic Manuscripts →

English, by Montgomery Crompton. 1810. Duodecimo. White leather over wood cover. Handwritten, roughly 160 pages. Title is a poorly rendered frontispiece of faux-Egyptian styling. Written in sloppy and erratic brown and, sometimes fading, black ink. Amateurishly bound, and the spine is separating in places. You are aware that the book is bound in human skin. … Continue reading Life As A God →

English, by Justin Geoffrey. No publisher or date of publication listed. Handwritten, containing various poems, bound in white leather with an unusual medallion inset in the cover. Each page has elaborate geometrical designs along the border. There is no additional artwork, but the first letter of each poem takes the form of a stylized grotesque.The … Continue reading Amongst the Stones →

English, written by Nigel Blackwell, 1920, sextodecimo, blue plasterboard with marbled endpapers and blue-stained page edges. Though date of publication is 1920, the spine is in remarkably poor condition, the back cover is cracked, multiple pages are dog-eared, there are some notes in the margin which are in Swahili. There is no listed publisher. A … Continue reading Africa’s Dark Sects →