Semesilam: The Eternal Sun (Forthcoming)
Authored by: José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Published by: Anathema Publishing
A compilatory volume, gathering the artwork that José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal produced between 2012-2017. This ‘definitive anthology’ includes the long out-of-print Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014) and A Second Nature (ASP, 2017), along with further, unpublished works from the same period and an extended photographic record of Sabogal’s work focusing on human skulls and bones. In a brand new prologue to Semesilam, Sabogal offers personal insight into the diverse circumstances that played a role in producing this corpus, including the motifs, symbols, and ideas behind them, and further interpretations of various images and themes – Gnostic Symbolism, Angelic Iconography, and Symbols of the Unconscious among others. The book will also include a preface by Frater Acher (author of the Holy Daimon trilogy [Scarlet Imprint, 2018; 2020; 2022], Clavis Goêtica [Hadean Press, 2021], and Ingenium [Tadehent Books, 2022]), and an epilogue by G. McCaughry (founder and owner of Anathema Publishing Ltd., and author of (h)Aurorae, [Anathema Publishing, 2018]). The book features a new and carefully designed layout by artist and typographer Joseph Uccello, which enhances the presentation of this collection, thereby making it available as a fine edition, showcasing material that has been otherwise out of print for a considerable while.
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Collector’s Edition
Publication date: 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-989339-24-4
Original price: USD$87/CA$650
Copies printed: Limited to 1300 copies.
Contributors
Illustrated by: José Gabriel Alegria Sabogal.
Typography by: Joseph Uccello.
Layout by: Joseph Uccello.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.5 inches. ((Same overall size as the IAO Hardcover but thicker.)
Page count: 240 pages.
Illustrative content: Full Colour interior.
Binding
Binding: Hardbound 100pts. Cover Material: Napura Sangha [Dark Brown] highly textured material. Gold foil blocking and Blind Deboss details on the cover and back-cover. RainbowCo. "Spruce" (Dark Teal colour) textured Endpapers. Black Headbands.
Paper: Printed on Accent Antique Alabaster 150 gsm archive-quality paper.
Typography: Fine typography.
Content Note
Accompanying material: Comes with a numbered tipped-in carton-plate signed by the Author.
Artisanal Edition
Publication date: 2024.
ISBN: 978-1-989339-24-4
Original price: USD$639/CA$875
Copies printed: Limited to approx. 50 copies.
Contributors
Illustrated by: José Gabriel Alegria Sabogal.
Typography by: Joseph Uccello.
Layout by: Joseph Uccello.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Page count: 240 pages.
Illustrative content: Full Colour interior.
Binding
Binding: Hardbound 100pts. Bound in genuine Black Nigerian Goatskin Leather with Raised Bands on the spine. Bronze foil blocking on rounded spine and on the front and back covers (along with Blind Deboss details on both covers). Custom, handmade Marbled Endpapers by artisan Freya Scott. Beige Headbands. Bound by Ludlow bookbindery in the UK.
Paper: Printed on Accent Antique Alabaster 150 gsm archive-quality paper.
Typography: Fine typography.
Content Note
Accompanying material: Comes with a numbered tipped-in carton-plate signed by the Author. +Handmade Slipcase bound in Black Nigerian Goatskin Leather (featuring the same Handmade Marbled Paper as with the book’s Endpapers, tooled with bronze foil blocking on the recto side of the slipcase)
