Arriton
Authored by: Ayis Lertas
Published by: Scarlet Imprint
Arriton is an enigmatic work from the artist Ayis Lertas. To open Arriton is to encounter the remnants of a lost esoteric tradition, leaves from an untranslated manuscript, a chance find amongst the disordered bookstalls of a remote ancient city. The seeker is thence immersed into a world redolent of gnostic gems, magical alphabets, defixiones and the spells of the magical papyri, which unfolds following a logic all of its own and yet remains entirely alien.
It is a Borgesian artefact which will intrigue, challenge and reward contemplation. Arriton is a gnomic and sigilic tour de force comprising 92 leaves of dense calligraphic images, ideograms and magical charaktêres, mysterious forms that have been subjected to applied erosion by the cruel hands of time. They seem fragile, these ragged-edged torn survivals from the library of Babel; bound together they comprise a relic of a numinous sorcerous hinterland that was hitherto unknown.
There are books about magic, and there are magical books. Arriton belongs to that rarer second category. It speaks deeply to those who are willing to surrender to the abyssal silence and be absorbed in the power of sign and symbol.
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Fine Edition
Publication date: 2024
Number of copies printed: 28
Original price: £400
Physical Description
Dimensions: 245 x 210mm
Page count: 104pp
Illustrative content: 92 colour images
Binding
Binding: Handbound in full deep violet shrunken grain goatskin, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, finished with a silk ribbon.
Content Note
Other: Presented in a custom slip case.
Standard Hardback Edition
Publication date: 2024
Original price: £45
Number of copies printed: 613
Physical Description
Dimensions: 245 x 210mm
Page count: 104pp
Illustrative content: 92 colour images
Binding
Binding: Bound in burgundy cloth, stamped in gold on front and back with a gold label on the spine, tan endpapers.
Paper: 170 gsm paper
