Apparently written entirely in latin, the title translates as “From Higher” or “Out of the Heights”. It contains several black and white woodcuts, each showing a mountain or a cliff or in one picture what appeared to be an empty night sky. Looking at it seems to cause vertigo. Book dealers put the book’s age between 100 and 150 years, and said it looked like it had been custom-bound.
Purchased November 10th, 2012 by Dominic Swain from an OxFam charity shop in Notting Hill Gate. Destroyed by Gerard Keay who burnt it after purchasing it from Dominic Swain.
Illustrations
- Mountains
- Cliffs
- Empty night sky
- A tower, looming over the surrounding countryside at an odd angle, with tiny birds just visible circling the summit