Haein Song Whole Light / Folds Pain Memory Marking Colour A Brief History of... *** The Fragments of Parmenides The Botanical City Ornamental Digressions Hungry Bibliophiles Interstices & Intersections Perpetua and Felicity In Principio La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation Dickinson's Selected Poems Bram de Does Russian Modernism Beckett's Trilogy The Songlines Linear A to Linear Z A Bend in the River Mr. Palomar Journey Round My Room The Myth of Sisyphus Romeo and Juliet The Periodic Table The Trial Gogol's Collected Stories Brush Up Your Shakespeare Just So Stories Le Grand Meaulnes Whistler Don't Look Now *** Three Plays of the Absurd Nine Books of the Absurd *** About The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity Bound in 2021 Russell Maret 2000 Illustrated with four monoprints by Lou Hicks Letterpress printed by Russell Maret Unique copy of an edition of 30 361 x 224 x 13 mm Full leather binding in debossed and hand coloured fair calfskin. Scattered gold leaf. Ultra flatback. Monoprinted endpapers with red leather joint to panel doublures. The edges of boards are covered in red goatskin. The binding is housed in a red cloth-covered Solander box with the gold title on the spine. It is a diary of Vibia Perpetua describing her imprisonment as a Christian in the year 202 or 203 prior to her martyrdom and it is one of the oldest and most notable early Christian texts. Inspired by the multiple run monoprints by Lou Hicks, the design explores the theme of passion, faith and sacrifice in the face of death. The etching plate was created by digitally layering and treating four monoprints from the book. The leather has been blind debossed multiple times then hand coloured using printer's relief ink. 25 medium deep gold leaves have been 'scattered' on the surface. Private Collection, UK