The Devil's Atlas. An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds. First Printing. Signed by Author. NEW

Brooke-Hitching, Edward

ISBN 10: 139850355X / ISBN 13: 9781398503557

Published by London. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2021

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London. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. 2021. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo . 6.5 x 9.3 inches (16.5cm x 23.4cm) approx. 245 pp. Black cloth boards with metallic red titles to the spine. Lavishly produced book with richly decorated colour endpapers. Front cover of dust wrapper shows 'Mankind's Eternal Dilemma. The Choice between Virtue and Vice'. 1633. Rear wrap shows Bruegel's 'the Fall of the Rebel Angels'. Book and jacket are both in fine condition. The book is gorgeously illustrated throughout and published on quality stock. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the illustrated half title. Scarce in signed state. gathers together a wonderful variety of beliefs and representations of life after death. These afterworlds are illustrated with an unprecedented collection of images, ranging from the marvellous infernal cartography of the European Renaissance artists attempting to map the structured Hell described by Dante and the decorative Islamic depictions of Paradise to the various efforts to map the Garden of Eden and the spiritual vision paintings of nineteenth-century mediums. It accompanies beautiful images with a highly readable trove of surprising facts and narratives, from the more inventive torture methods awaiting sinners, to colourful eccentric catalogues of demons, angels and assorted death deities.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil's Atlas. An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds. First Printing. Signed by Author. NEW
• Publisher: London. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 139850355X
• ISBN 13: 9781398503557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The Devils Atlas An Explorers Guide to Heavens Hells and Afterworlds