Creating rare, handcrafted letterpress books at Pegana Press since 2009.
Creating rare, handcrafted letterpress books at Pegana Press since 2009.
We present this baroque and bizarre masterpiece by R.H. Barlow in a Limited Letterpress Edition of 34 Numbered Copies. There are 26 Lettered copies, signed by Jim Pitts and Michael Hutter.
2 Copies of each Edition currently being bound. Order now to reserve your copy.
R.H. Barlow, collaborator and friend to H.P. Lovecraft, composed this sequence of short Tales, having been inspired by a mysterious phrase from the novel Vathek written by William Beckford; "thither Ganigul often retired in the daytime to read in quiet the marvelous Annals of the Jinns, the chronicles of ancient worlds, and the prophecies relating to the worlds that are yet to be born."
"...for these fables are exquisite dark miniatures, like tiny cameos carved in onyx." Lin Carter, Kingdoms of Sorcery, 1976.
Printed on Moonstone Opal French Laid Paper using violet and green inks from hand-set Goudy type and the type then distributed, assuring one press run printing only.
Bound in purple-aqua double woven cloth with black and gold hand marbled endpapers from Bangladesh.