Diableries: The Complete Edition: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell - Hardcover

Brian May; Denis Pellerin; Paula Fleming

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1999667433 ISBN 13: 9781999667436

Publisher: London Stereoscopic Company, 2019

Synopsis

Finally back in print and updated to include every card in the series, including the two long lost cards that were missing from the first edition, this cult classic provides a rare and satirical look at an 1860's view of Hell -- the French state under the tyrannical rule of Napoleon III. Thanks to Dr. Brian May's imagination and his determination to share the wonders of these strange cards, thousands of readers have escaped the boundary of Earthly tedium! Diableries transports them to a nightmarish netherworld inhabited by devils and skeletons -- in the nicest possible way, of course! The amazing 3-D cards show scenes of torture, fire, and every variety of licentious behavior, with scantily clad ladies of the demi monde and the devil himself encouraging the participants worst intentions.

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Review

Fantasy book of the year. --The Mail on Sunday

The monster hardback tome collects together a series of diableries (devilments) photographs of ghoulish stereo cards featuring devils, skeletons and satrys, originally printed in France in the 1860s. These stereo cards are best viewed in 3D. As a consequence, May, who has held a lifelong passion for stereoscopic imagery, has set about designing his own 3D viewer a pair of plastic spectacles known as the OWL a pair are given away with the book. --Esquire

Colourful and infernally detailed three-dimensional images that provide a fascinating insight into the imagination of the past ... The black-clad volume is alive with tableaux that range from the grotesque to the ghoulish, from the cruelly satirical to the plainly insane. Every picture tells several stories. --The Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Brian May, CBE, PhD, ARCS, FRAS is a founding member of Queen, a world renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer and performer, a passionate campaigner for animal rights, and collector and publisher of stereoscopic photography. Brian postponed a career in astronomy when Queen's popularity first exploded, but after an incendiary 30 years as a rock musician, returned to astrophysics in 2006, when he completed his PhD. Stereoscopy has been a lifelong passion, and to date he has authored or coauthored six books of stereo photographs under his London Stereoscopic Company (LSC) imprint.

About this edition

• Publisher: London Stereoscopic Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1999667433
• ISBN 13: 9781999667436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280