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[SPARE, Austin Osman] The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aaos, featuring the Original Conceptual Folio (Deluxe Edition)
[SPARE, Austin Osman] The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aaos, featuring the Original Conceptual Folio (Deluxe Edition)
Edited by Frederick Carter with an introduction by Francis Marsden
London: Fulgur Limited, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Tall 4to. Quarter vellum and custom cloth in dust jacket and slipcase. Limited to 88 hand-numbered copies, signed by the publisher Robert Ansell. Fine in fine dust jacket and slipcase. A fantastic book production.
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 edition features a high quality facsimile of the original edition from 1921 plus a full color facsimile of the Conceptual Folio. Designed, edited and compiled by Robert Ansell.