Encyclopaedia Goetica Volume 1. The True Grimoire. A Reconstruction of the Grimorium Verum with Commentary and Notes; The True Grimoire.
UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2022. Second Revised Edition - Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 266pp. Handbound in full leather, deep-green goatskin with gilt titling to spine and gilt sigil to centre of front board. Bevelled edges to boards, all edges of text-block gilt, marbled endpapers, and ribbon marker. Bibliography and index. Housed in publisher's plain, black, cloth slipcase. Iillustrated in b&w with characters, sigils, magic squares, etc. Loosely inserted book-plate, letterpress deckle-edged broadsheet print of "The Prayer of the Salamanders", and a talismanic black bookmark embellished with a metallic green butterfly.
This leather-bound Deluxe issue of the revised second edition of "Encyclopaedia Goetica Volume 1. The True Grimoire" limited to 72 hand-numbered copies, this being copy No. 36. Of this new edition, the publisher notes: "The first volume of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopaedia Goetica is a reconstruction of the "Grimorium Verum" from the corrupted Italian and French versions of the grimoire. The "True Grimoire" comprises a coherent and eminently workable system of goetic magic, with extensive commentary and notes by a practicing necromancer. The second edition appears thirteen years after the "True Grimoire" was first published, in which time it has become a critical and foundational work of the current magical revival. As Dr Alexander Cummins observes in his Foreword, the "True Grimoire" ‘spearheaded a particular renaissance in grimoire studies towards more informed historical analysis and more engaged mythopoetic ritual praxis, all the while centering the realities of hands-on cunning. ... The new edition is augmented by two previously published and out of print essays by the author: 'The Spell for Success’ gives a comprehensive analysis of a key part of the "Grimorium Verum ritual", which it shares with a number of other Solomonic works, but which originates conceptually in pre-Solomonic magic; and "The Conjuration of Nebiros," which details a complete conjuration from the author’s personal work, illustrating the entire process and contextualising it." An unused copy, thus Fine condition with the three inserts, housed in a near Fine custom slipcase (just a hint of shelf rubbing.). Item #73646
ISBN: 9781912316595
Price: $685.00