Book of the Black Dragon Volume 1
Setting the stage for the Black Dragon began by discussing the context in which the Black Dragon is encountered. Using the same schema as the one used in the Dragon Book of Essex, the written word moves across ‘power’ points or crossroads, these being body parts of the Black Dragon. Directly referring to Draconis the book creates an inverted rendition, one where the onus is set by earth dragon mysteries rather than stellar. This in turn refers directly to the ancestral connection the books has with those who are forgotten. Consequently, a new retinue of daemons, conduits, and djinn introduce themselves to the reader as points of contact, by which we can evoke and invoke non-being: something which is completely Other to ourselves. Such is the strength of this emphasis that the first volume details points leading up to the head of the Black Dragon. Providing this level of clarity means the location of the work, the Proklosis Ring also requires further attention, and thus Codex Althaeban Malik came to be the second volume.
Standard Edition
Size: 235x154mm portrait covered in blood red buckram. Black and Gold foil blocking to front and rear with single gold foil block to rounded spine. Ebony end papers, embossed with insignia to inside front. 120 gsm Munken rough paper with red and black head and tail bands. Scarlet book ribbon. 415 pages.
Original Price - £90
Deluxe Edition
Size 235x154mm portrait
Solander Box
Quarter Moroccan style with black goat leather meeting nonpareil marbled paper. Dividing the two materials across the front and the back is a vertical line of gold foil block. The Solander box spine will have 7 raised bands with one coloured panel in red with the title of the book foil blocked onto it. Each band will be bordered by foil blocked lines. The inside of the solander box will be red velvet with an AP blind embossed insignia on the left hand side.
The Book
Covered in black goat leather. Red and Gold foil blocking to front and rear with a raised banded spine with a uniform design in each panel. End papers nonpareil. Where the nonpariel is attached to the hardcase on the inside of the book it will be clipped back and then along the edge where the folded leather meets the nonpareil there will be gold foil blocking, the same will be the case to the back of the book. The foil blocking will be the same as on the solander box. 130 gsm Munken Pure. The edge of the book block will have an antique gold gilt finish. Red and Black Head and Tail bands. Black book ribbon.
Additional Sorcerous contributions to the deluxe copy
Plucked from an earthen grave each deluxe comes with the rib from a venomous snake this is to be offered to the Black Dragon. It has two particular applications in that it can either be used at each point across the dragon's form or placed in the Ossuary of the Temporal Flux, being the Vessel of the Dragon's Head. It is thereby a key and a lock for opening the way.
Each deluxe copy will come with a sigillic piece of artwork which has been drawn from one of the points mentioned in the book. This may include a dedicated piece to a particular daemon or it may refer to a point from the Black Dragon’s form.
Original Price - £700
Book of the Black Dragon Volume 1 2nd Edition
Paper Munken Smooth
Head and Tail bands
Two colour foil blocks to front cover, back cover, and spine.
Each book bought directly from Atramentous Press will be signed by the author.
£90
