Body of work to date

ARS OBSCURA Bookbinders,

4 Apr 2007
Hi Joel,
Attached are some pictures of your books in place in the distillery. Enjoy and thanks again for your work on this project. We are so happy with the way the whole project came together, and the books were an important part of that process!
Best,

Jennifer Kittlaus
Library Reference and Collections Assistant
George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
P.O. Box 110
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
703.799.5085
jkittlaus@mountvernon.org

Seattle Times Newspaper, Scene Section, 1983-July 27th, pg. F1, "Spellbinders".

Dallas Life Magazine, July 4th, 1993. Discover Section, pg. 20, "By The Book".

Special binding done for the television series Northern Exposure, 1994.

Seattle Post Intelligencer Newspaper, July 3rd, 2000, front page, Business Section E, "Bindery Brings Books Back to Life".

Seattle Magazine, City Guide, vol. 9, issue 6. July/Aug. 2000, pg.49, "We've Got It Made".

The Book Club of Washington Journal, vol. 1. No. 2, Winter 2000.

Publishing: Titles worked on:

Self Publishing: The Virtues of Stones or De Virtutibus Lapidum attributed to Damigeron. Translated by Patricia Tahil, edited by Joel Radcliffe. 1989 ARS OBSCURA, Seattle, WA. ISBN: 0-9623780-0-3, softcover/ISBN: 0-9623780-3-8, leather 1/4 bound w/corners/ISBN: 0-9623780-2-X, leather 1/4 bound w/no corners. 15 pp/75 pgs. 5.25"x 7.75"

Appointment at Gettysburg. Sergeant George W. Heilig, One Hundred Fifty-first Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers and the Civil War by John Hunt Walker, M.D. Ars Obscura 1994. 10 pp., 115 pgs. 6"x9". CIP# 94-65042. ISBN: 0-9623780-5-5.

Titles by other publishers, but bound by ARS OBSCURA Bookbinders:

The Antichrist, translated by William Kaufmann, edited by Alexander Tille, illustrated by Trevor Brown. Published by C.D.G. Publications, Boston, MA. 1988. 6pp., 89 pgs., 5.25"x 7.75".

Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests, 1628. Preface by William H. West III. Facsimile reprint by The Green Man Historical Foundation, Seattle WA. 1989. 12 pp., 42 pgs. 5.25 "x 7.75". ISBN: 0-9623957-3-0.

The Psalms of a Heretic, A Theurgical Joke by Munir M. Hanafi, preface by Antero Alli, art direction by Joel Radcliffe and Munir Hanafi. Published by Publications de la Nuit, Seattle, WA. 1991. xvi pp., 90pgs. 7" x 10 3/4 ". CIP# 91-90220. ISBN: 1-880151-00-6.

Our Troth, published by The Ring of Troth, Seattle, WA. 1993. 14 pp., 711 pgs. 5.5"x 7.75" ISBN: 0-9623957-8-1

The God of Socrates by Lucius Apuleius, translation and foreword by Daniel Driscoll. Published by Heptangle Books, Gillette, NJ., 1993. 11 pp., 55 pgs. 5"x7.5". CIP# 93-78410. ISBN: 0-935214-12-7.

Antiquitates Curiosae, The Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings, Proverbs and Singular Customs by Joseph Taylor, 1819. Reprinted by Familiar Productions, San Francisco, CA. 1995. CIP# 95-68910/ISBN: 0-9623780-8-9.

Ptolemy's Pyre by Kurt Weischedel. Published by Idiot Glee Publishing, Seattle, WA. 1995. 8 pp., 81 pgs., 5.25"x 7.75". CIP# 95-68911. ISBN: 0-9623780-6-2.

Dear Zorada by John Hunt Walker, M.D., Prescott Press, Bellevue, WA. 1995. 15 pp., 126 pgs., 6"x9". CIP# 95-68909. ISBN: 0-9623780-7-0

A Man of Purpose by John Hunt Walker, M.D., Prescott Press, Bellevue, WA. 1999. 12 pp., 160 pgs. 6"x9".

A Journey into the History of Canada and the United States. A Book about Falkner, Maclean, Smith, Day and KriegPublished by Steven R. Day, Mukilteo, WA. . 18 pp., 244 pgs., 8.5"x 11".

Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon the King, with commentaries by Apollonius of Tyanaeus, translated by Robert Turner, 1657. Reprint-reissue by Trident Books, Seattle WA. 1987-first edition. 5.25"x 7.75". 76 pgs. Second edition published 1997 typeset facsimile of the 1657 edition, with additional material by Adam McLean & Lynn Thorndyke. 4.25"x 6.75", 14 pp., 115 pgs. ISBN: 1-879000-05-9

Grimoirium Verum, first Trident Books edition, 1994, Seattle, WA. Reissued in second edition, 1997. 18 pp., 86 pgs., 5.25"x 7.75". ISBN: 1-879000-04-0

The Grand Grimoire, translated by Gretchen Rudy, edited by Antonio Venitiana del Rabina. Introduction by Arthur Edward Waite. Published by Trident Books, Seattle WA., 1996. 16 pp., 119 pgs., 4.25"x 6.75". ISBN: 1-879000-01-6. Second edition 1996.

The Great Grimoire of Pope Honorius, translated by Kineta Ch'ien, appended with an English translation of ecclesiastic exorcism by Matthew Sullivan. Published by Trident Books, Seattle WA., 1999. 28 pp., 102 pgs., 4.25"x 6.75". ISBN: 1-879000-08-3.

Demonographia. A Fountainhead of Diabolique Portraiture, translated by Prudence Priest, published by Trident Books, Seattle WA., 1999. 10 pp., 104 pgs., 5.25"x 7.75". ISBN: 1-879000-11-3.

Picatrix, Ghayat al-Hakim, Goal of the Wise, published by Ouroboros Press, Seattle, WA. 2000. xv pp., 173pgs. 8 ½" x 5 ½". CIP# 97-92174, ISBN: 0-9662950-0-5.

Ouroboros Press Translation of the Picatrix, the Ghayat al Hakim
... Hand-bound by the Studios of ARS OBSCURA Bookbinding. $125.00 Shipping: $5.00 for
the first book and $1.00 per book thereafter. William J. Kiesel, Bookseller ... www.renaissanceastrology.com/ouroborospicatrix1.html

Violet Books: Salmonson Bibliography, Books
... 1995. Limited to 250 copies, 26 of which were hardbound by Ars Obscura,the rest trade wraps. Illustrated by Thomas Wiloch. Collects ...
www.violetbooks.com/salmonson-bib.html

Satanic Rituals
ARS OBSCURA. ... He informed me they were done by a binder; ARS OBSCURA in Seattle Washington and that the owner saw people by appointment only. ... www.satanicrituals.com/Arsobscura.htm

amphiskios.net
... One can't tell from their website, but Ars Obscura is the single coolest bookbinding and repair shop in the history of that type of shop that I've seen. ... www.amphiskios.net/archives/00000025.htm

Magickal Supply Resources on the Internet
... Catalog. ARS OBSCURA PO Box 4424 Seattle, WA 98104 206-340-8810
www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7502/resmailorder.html

Junglecity.com - Seattle Updates
- ... & Postcards David Ishii Bookseller Megan Mary Olander Florist  Heritage Photographs Ars Obscura Bookbinder Edwards Photography ... www.junglecity.com/updates/shop/002.htm

Alchemy research library ... Damigeron. The Virtues of Stones. Translated by Patricia Tahil. Edited by Joel Radcliffe. Seattle Ars Obscura 1989. Danciger, Elizabeth. ... www.levity.com/alchemy/reslib.html