Beautiful Macabre: Rare Posters 1868-1981 [Hardcover]

$79.00

Suave skeletons, shocking social hygiene ads, and all manner of dark and eerie occult artworks! Over one hundred rare original posters are documented in the expanded hardcover edition of Beautiful Macabre: Rare Posters 1868-1981 with commentary from historian and museum director Thomas Negovan. This deluxe, limited edition hardcover book features full-page, full-color, high-resolution images captured directly from the original artworks in the Century Guild museum archive!

Expanded Hardcover edition:

  • Limited edition hardcover
  • Large-format 9 in. x 12 in. book
  • Foil stamping and spot varnish
  • 128 pp, full color throughout
  • All high-resolution, original source images
  • Edition of 3000 

Expanded Slipcase edition:

  • Limited edition hardcover
  • Presented in cloth-wrapped, foil stamped slipcase
  • Each book hand signed on tipped-in vellum sheet
  • Numbered edition of 250
  • High-quality midnight-black fabric slipcase debossed in red with Bernhard Pankok's 1896 Sphinx Moth illustration

While the internet is a magnificent repository of data, at Century Guild we still love curling up with books!  And many–if not most–of the images presented here are not available on the internet at all. Each image was captured from the original artwork, professionally photographed and meticulously color corrected, and printed for you to enjoy at the highest resolution possible.

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Jennifer F.

Lovely Book! ❤️

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Dameon H.
Absolutely Beautiful!

Took a chance on a FB ad and I was not disappointed! Beautiful edition to my library. I definitely recommend the slip case edition. You will not be disappointed.

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Kyle B.

Trying not to read it too quickly. The curation of the content and quality of the pages is excellent.

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Demetrios S.
Perfect!

Awesome!

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Kelly V.
So stunning 😍 ✨️

Waited to get this for some time and decided to treat myself after this nightmare election. What a treat it was!!! So stunning...