Works in Private Collections

Certain works leave the atelier permanently.

These pieces were made once, for one person or one lodge, and have been placed in private collections. They remain here as part of the record of Theurgic Arts.

Archived Works

Front board of the hand-bound edition of Ritual — red goatskin, the title tooled in gold script, a ring of cabochon stones in gold bezels around the sigil, and the authors' names tooled below
Western Mystery Tradition · Bookbinding

Ritual — Hand-Bound Edition

Placed in a Private Collection

Of everything that has left the atelier, this is the piece we are proudest of: a one-of-one hand-bound edition of Ritual, the grimoire by Damien Echols and Lorri Davis.

This book was crafted from scratch. It is bound in full TALAS Alran goatskin, vegetable-tanned, in Ruby Red, over laced-in boards with raised bands on the spine. The title and the authors' names are tooled in gold on the spine and the front board. At the centre of the front board the sigil from the book sits inside a ring of cabochon stones, each hand-set in a gold bezel; the back board carries the same sigil tooled in gold within a ring of lettering. The page edges are burnished 24k gilt, and beneath the gold is a fore-edge painting that shows only when the pages are fanned. Every element was chosen to answer the text it holds.

It was our tremendous honor to create this one-of-one for Damien and Lorri. The book is now part of their private collection.

Provenance

Not for sale. A magical record built to the same structure and finish can be commissioned; see the Hand-Bound Magical Record.

Spine of the hand-bound edition of Ritual — raised bands with the title and the authors' names tooled in gold on red goatskin Back board of the hand-bound edition of Ritual — the sigil tooled in gold inside a ring of lettering on red goatskin Head and fore-edge of the hand-bound edition of Ritual — burnished gilt edges with the fore-edge painting showing, and the sewing visible at the head of the text block The fore-edge painting of the hand-bound edition of Ritual, revealed with the text block fanned in the press — a watercolour column on the page edges of a red rose, a white lily, a bumblebee on a white rose, a sunflower, blue and pink blooms among lily pads, a hummingbird, and a pink water lily at the foot