THE
WORD ACCOMPLISHED
1974.
Edition of 75 with 5 Artist's
Proofs
35 X 25 X 6.5cm.
Sixteen
edited extracts from the
book by A.B.Christopher,
first published in 1951 (Philosophical
Library, New York). This
limited edition was edited,
designed, illustrated with
etchings and hand-printed
by Natalie d'Arbeloff.
Seventeen loose
double leaves folded into a wrapper with title in black
letterpress over a yellow ochre textured background relief-printed
by NdA from a deep-etched plate. Held in drop-back box
with quarter leather spine and Ivory Vellum cover, deeply
embossed from etched plates. Sixteen etchings by NdA
printed by the viscosity method (several colours from
one plate). Hand-set text in Monotype 18pt Garamond,
printed by NdA on Barcham Green mould-made paper on an
ancient Lion hand press at the World's End Press, London.
Blind-embossed logo of the World's End Press printed
on the Colophon's facing page.
A paperback
colour facsimile of the above limited edition
was published in 1984. A small
number of copies of this version, without illustrations
apart from a black and white frontispiece, were translated
into Russian and distributed free of charge in Russia
at my father's request.
Stanbrook
Abbey Press, Worcestershire, published a separate
edition in 1974, consisting of 20 broadsides held
in a box. The extracts of text were printed by Dame
Hildelith Cumming, the etchings printed by myself
above the text.
An
edited version of the original 1951 Philosophical Library
edition was published in 2002 (NdA Press).
More
details of the trade editions on this
page

Plate
XIII Deep etching & aquatint.
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PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS
Victoria & Albert
Museum, National Art Library
National Library of Australia
Biblioteca Nazionale, Rome
Museum of the Book, The Hague
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thomas
Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection,
Library
of Congress, Washington DC
Bridwell Library, Dallas, Texas
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
Austin, Texas
University
of North Texas Library
Stanford
University, Stanford, California
Tutt Library, Colorado College
Butler Library, Columbia University, New York
Kohler Library, Madison, Wisconsin
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Indiana
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Library, Campbell University, North Carolina
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Pennsylvania State University Libraries
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Lancaster Theological Seminary,
Pennsylvania
Reformed Theological Seminary, Oviedo, Florida
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Plate VI Deep etching and aquatint.
Do not blame
your brother for an unloving action.
Try to cancel
it by performing a loving
action in its place.
Do not preach
moral priciples: sow only deeds of love.
From there, all
the rest will follow as if
by enchantment.
Seek
no more when love is accomplished, for there is no more
to seek.
Go to another
place where love is still imprisoned and deliver it
to the holder of the key.
The
author of The Word Accomplished was my father,
Alexander d'Arbeloff, under the pseudonym A.B.Christopher.
While his life was filled with many achievements
in various fields, this unsung book was the closest
to his heart. Those who have discovered it have felt
the same.
Copyright © Natalie
d'Arbeloff and A.B.Christopher 1974
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