ANONYMOUS - Grimoire.

A Book of Spirits. Containing the Evocation of the 72 Rebellious Spirits who were shut up in a Brazen Vessel by Solomon the King of Israel. [ A Grimoire ]; And the Invocation by a Crystal of one's Guardian Angel and the Almadel

NP: J.D. 2441418 [ Heptangle ], 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xvi+ 76pp. Original blue-gray cloth with silver title to spine and sigil on front board. Title page in red and black, numerous sigils, seals etc. in text throughout. Printed letterpress, using handset type. An anonymously-published work apparently based on the text of the Lemegeton or Lesser Key of Solomon, a Medieval Grimoire - the oldest copies of which apparently date from the thirteenth century. According to the introduction "the text here presented is a free rendering ... the essentials have been retained while the exhortations and redundancies eliminated. It parallels The Great Key of Solomon, but is superior to it in that it enumerates the spirits with whom the magician would have commerce. .." It is liberally illustrated with sigils, talismanic seals, etc. Although not identified as such, the book is sometimes said to have been published by Daniel J. Driscoll who later founded Heptangle Books (if the date on the title-page is correct, this would have been his first publication). Heptangle were arguably the pioneers of modern fine-press occult publishing in the United States. From the collection of Clive Harper with his discreet book-label neatly tipped in at the rear. Harper is well- known as the bibliographer of Austin Osman Spare, for updating the Aleister Crowley bibliography in the 2011 Teitan Press collection of Gerald Yorke's writings, and as someone who has lent his expertise to numerous other publications. A crease across one leaf and a few light printer's marks here and there (as always), otherwise a tight, clean near-Fine copy. (no dust jacket - none issued). Item #65958

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