The Nonus Porta is not a shelf item you can buy, but is hand made for commissions only, using 17thC techniques and hand made materials that will hold true for as many centuries as the great Masters work of past millennia.
If you are a serious occultist/collector or purveyor of fine art......read on:
This version of The Ninth Gate is exactly to period formulae, from the sewing ....to the animal glue.
The text is a 17th century type face, the woodcuts are taken from originals, the leaves are sectioned and flexibly sewn on raised cords in a 17thC herringbone style with laced - in boards.
The leather is consecrated virgin calf, vegetable tanned and cured by hand, then paste washed. The colour is a carefully blended 17thC formula, and the binding is exactly to the mid 17th century.
The text for this commission is nine different occult texts separated by a "gate" printed on
50 year old vellum laid
There are 6 different versions of the last plate (VIIII) and of course the genuine LCF plate was never in the film prop book....This is the only copy in which both the "star burst" LCF plates are present, the last plate in the book being the genuine version.
The end papers are hand marbled black and sewn in, the book is trimmed on 3 edges with the option of having the edges gilt and "gauffered" with Sigils.....The spine rounded and backed. Head and tail bands are hand made and sewn in before the boards are made, laced onto the book block and splayed out. To watch some videos of Paul's work and 'The Making of the Nonus Porta'
