[Rarebooks] FS: The Sacrificial Universe, Deluxe Issue

[Michael John Thompson]

We can offer:

SMITH, David Chaim.

THE SACRIFICIAL UNIVERSE. Deluxe Edition, One of 
88 Hand-Numbered Copies Bound in Quarter Grey 
Morocco, Signed by the Artist, This Being Copy #5.

London: Fulgur Limited. 2012. First Edition, First Printing, Deluxe Issue.

Large Folio, quarter leather binding. Original 
grey cloth with a decorative device in red on 
front panel, grey morocco leather spine titled in 
red, marbled red endpapers. 120 pp, 35 full-page 
plates, including five large folding triptychs 
and a quadriptych, plus 28 vignettes in the text. 
The Deluxe edition, limited to only 88 hand 
numbered copies signed by the author / artist, 
this being copy No. 5. A fine copy in dust jacket 
and felt-lined cloth slipcase, as issued. The 
Deluxe edition of this book sold out from the 
publisher within 24 hours of being announced.

¶ David Chaim Smith has been known to students of 
kabbalah for more than a decade, but a recent 
return to art as a vocational practice has 
brought his work to a wider audience. His first 
book with Fulgur, The Sacrificial Universe, draws 
upon his experience to present us with a 
devotional approach to ecstatic visionary 
mysticism. Ranging from intellectual treatises on 
sacred geometry, biomorphism and the symbol of 
the serpent in kabbalistic theory and practise, 
to a poetic twilight language of ecstatic 
devotion, The Sacrificial Universe is unlike 
anything else. Produced as a lavish small folio 
with generous margins and a classic typographic 
style, 'The Sacrificial Universe' presents 
David’s key artworks of the last four years as 
full-page images, with the triptychs and 
quadriptych offered as folding plates. The 
complex and evocative iconographic symbolism is 
also explored through commentaries. Yet The 
Sacrificial Universe is more than a homage to 
those seventeenth century books of hermetic 
mysticism - structured according to the classic 
kabbalistic text Sefer Yetzirah, The Sacrificial 
Universe may be approached on three levels 
(world, year, and soul) to offer the reader a 
view of gnostic surrender within a vision of the 
self-consuming nature of phenomena.

Fulgur issued a companion volume, 'The Blazing Dew of Stars', in 2013.


Price: $850.00 Cdn, less 20% discount, postage extra at cost.

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