Literature > The thumbed maroon volume of Elizabethan plays.

It was eighteen months since the Consul had lent him the thumbed maroon volume of Elizabethan plays. – UTV, 27.

Intaglioed in the maroon leather cover of the book was a golden faceless figurine also running, carrying a torch like the elongated neack and head and open beak of the sacred ibis. – UTV, 34.

The intaglio image on Modern Library covers – Prometheus, the bringer of light – blurs the boundaries between running and flying, as Laruelle finds [34].

Above and below: Lowry’s copy of the book, from the Special Collection at UBC; it is addressed on the flyleaf "To my husband – Christmas, 1940, with all my love. Margie." Images courtesy UBC Special Collections.