The Maze Maker
1967, Michael Ayrton's fictional biography of Daedalus
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Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14.5cm, 282pp.
In this fictional autobiography of the father of Icarus, “Apollo’s creature,” a brilliant but flawed man, writer and sculptor Michael Ayrton harnesses the tales of the past to mould a myth for our times. We learn of Daedalus’s increasingly ambitious artifacts and inventions; his fascination with Minoan culture, commerce, and religion, and his efforts to adapt to them; how he comes to design the maze of the horned Minotaur; and how, when he decides that he must flee yet again, he builds two sets of wax wings—wings that will be instruments of his descent into the underworld, a place of both purgatory and rebirth.
Condition
A good copy. There is some chipping and wear to the wrapper's edges, and some toning and spotting to the pages' top edge.
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Price
£12.00
