https://issuu.com/pbmg/docs/pbi_1124
"Shane Logan of Lake Worth Beach's The Dancing Elephant is at it again with another bookish project. To attract modern audiences to antiquated titles, Logan teamed up with fellow twentysomething Tony Ferry to launch Gallowglass Books, a company that republishes out-of-print books in luxurious formats, complete with custom artwork.
"Compared to audiobooks, YouTube, and the internet, books are very much antiquated in terms of efficiency of transferring information," Logan says. "So, if they aren't practical anymore, why should we manufacture and design them to be cheap and disposable? We should be designing them as luxury items-as artifacts and items of great admiration that store timeless wisdom."
Their first tome-Monad, a collection of ancient Roman philosophy by Neoplatonists 600 copies in two months. "Their work was being overlooked by most publishers, so we put together a big hardcover featuring a whole collection of their 'greatest hits, so to speak, then commissioned an oil painting by a notable artist named Benjamin Vierling for the cover as well as art for the interior," Logan shares. In addition to fresh art, they commission introductions by notable figures related to the topic at hand.
Upcoming titles include Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates, a famous history book on the Renaissance and esotericism, and Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey (the earliest book of "drug literature" from a Victorian English
writer with an opium addiction), which will be fully illustrated. Logan and Ferry also have plans for books in the genres of magick/occultism, Stoic philosophy, and British military memoir, all featuring illustrations to upgrade these (almost) forgotten books with a revamped presentation in the hopes of spurring renewed attention from today's readers. (gallowglassbooks.shop)" -S.S.
Palm Beach Illustrated