Item #70589 The Grimoire or Book of Spells of Pope Honorius. Anonymous.
The Grimoire or Book of Spells of Pope Honorius.
The Grimoire or Book of Spells of Pope Honorius.
The Grimoire or Book of Spells of Pope Honorius.
The Grimoire or Book of Spells of Pope Honorius.

The Grimoire or Book of Spells of Pope Honorius.

UK: Society for Esoteric Endeavour, 2006. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small squarish quarto. 204pp (approximately half of which have text or illustrations, the remainder being blanks per the original manuscript). Quarter leather: Morocco goatskin spine over cloth boards. With gilt stamped leather title label impressed into front board. With original custom-made slip-case, velvet lined cloth with marbled paper sides, that match the marbled endpapers of the book. Coloured title page and occasional coloured embellishments. The rare BEST issue, with slip-case, of the FIRST PUBLICATION BY THE SOCIETY FOR ESOTERIC ENDEAVOUR. Edition limited to 65 numbered copies, this being copy no. 2. A beautifully produced facsimile of an unusual manuscript edition of "The Grimoire of Pope Honorius" that is apparently a previously unpublished variant - whilst it omits some diagrams included in other editions, it also contains illustrations that are unique and do not appear elsewhere. The original manuscript from which this facsimile was made belonged to F.G. Irwin, an important figure in the 19th Century British occultism who was a member of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, The Society of Eight, the Fratres Lucis and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The slip-case was sold as an "extra" to create a deluxe edition. It is a beautiful hand-made production, and was very labour intensive, and thus very few examples were sold, so examples of the book with slip case are truly rare, A fine copy of a superbly produced and extremely limited edition. Item #70589

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