Description: The Alchemist: Prologue is just that, a printed version of the prologue from the book, The Alchemist. It is a letterpress printed book in an edition of 10 copies, with an engraving on the cover and pigment printed images. It is a pamphlet stitch book with uncut quartos, on esparto and cotton paper. The images, or "effluviographs," are images of what the spirt world might look like, if we were able to photograph it.