The Grimoire or Book of Spells of Pope Honorius.
UK: Hell Fire Club, ND [ ca 2008 ]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches). (Approx 96pp). Quarter leather: red leather spine over green cloth boards. Blind tooling to spine. Marbled endpapers. Facsimile of F.G. Irwin's bookplate on front paste-down. According to the publisher 50 copies were released bound thus, with an additinal 6 copies being bound in full-leather. A semi-facsimile of an unusual manuscript of "The Grimoire of Pope Honorius" that 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 manuscript was first published by the Society for Esoteric Endeavour in 2006. This Hell Fire Club version appears to have been reproduced directly from the S.E.E. edition two years later, although most of the blanks in the original MS and S.E.E. edition have been ommitted (like most Hell Fire Club publications it is devoid of any publication or copyright data, indeed the "publisher's" name does not even appearn anywhere within the volume). A previous owner's gift note on the verso of the front free endpaper. Otherwise a Fine copy (no dust jacket issued). Item #70599
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