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“Obscurity is of paramount importance in the shaping of one’s secret life with book. it is defining and barely traceable characteristic for the conjuration of secrecy and hermeticism, radiating and refracting its own existence and bewitchment back through prisms of floating dust and the unfolding permanence of the past. Books lock in the past forever so that it lives forever under the diadem of its own light.”
About Jonathan Wood
Jonathan Wood lives in London and is the proprietor of the Arbor Vitae Press and has written and published a clutch of sought-after small press works, including 6 issues of the esoteric literary journal Through the Woods as well as four volumes of poetry by award-winning Anglo-Welsh poet, Nigel Humphreys. His own fiction has been extensively published by Zagava, Ex Occidente/Mount Abraxas, Raphus and Egaeus as well as literary articles for the Private Libraries Association and Tartarus Press. He is an inveterate book collector and an occasional book dealer, specialising in the obscure by-ways of literature, shadowing the London rare …
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