Item #68568 The Key of Solomon the King ( Clavicula Salomonis ). S. L. MacGregor MATHERS, and, Richard Cavendish.

The Key of Solomon the King ( Clavicula Salomonis ).

York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1989. First Paper Edition. Softcover. Small quarto. xii + 128pp. illustrated in b&w. Long accounted as amongst 'the most famous, or infamous, of all magical textbooks' this translation of the so-called "Key of Solomon" is based on 7 manuscripts then housed in the British Museum. The translation is by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, one of the founders and leaders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, occult scholar, and nemesis of Aleister Crowley. It was first published in 1889, reissued in 1909, and remained out-of-print except for shabby pirate editions until it was reissued by both Routledge Kegan Paul (UK) and Samuel Weiser (US) with a new introduction by Richard Cavendish in 1972. This is a 1989 reprint of that new edition, with the Cavendish introduction. Richard Cavendish (1930-2016), was an Oxford-educated author who wrote numerous accessible but generally reliable books on different aspects of the occult and was editor of the "Man Myth and Magic" series. Hint of light shelf-wear, edges and extremities a little chafed, a few pencil notes on inside front cover - but otherwise a tight clean VG+ copy. Item #68568
ISBN: 0877286981

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