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THE BANNED LECTURE


 

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The Banned Lecture, Gilles de Rais.  To have been Delivered before The Oxford University Poetry Society by Aleister Crowley on the Evening of Monday February 3rd, 1930.

   

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1000 copies printed.4

Bound in stapled pale-green wrappers.1

Upper cover incoporates the title page and is lettered in black ‘The Banned Lecture | [rule] | GILLES de RAIS | to have been delivered | before | The Oxford University Poetry Society | By ALEISTER CROWLEY | on the | Evening of Monday | February 3rd, 1930 | [rule] | PRICE SIX PENCE | [rule] | Published by | P.R. Stephensen, 41 MUSEUM ST. | LONDON, W.C. 1 | FOR SALE TO MEMBERS OF OXFORD’.1

Lower cover lettered in black ‘To be published shortly | [rule] | THE LEGEND | OF ALEISTER CROWLEY by P.R. STEPHENSEN | [ornamental rule] | A study of the Documentary | Evidence relating to a CAMPAIGN | of Personal Vilification without | parallel in Literary History. | [rule] | This pamphlet printed at an hour’s notice by: | The Boltolph Printing Works.  Gate Street, Kingsway, W.C. 2’.1

7 1/4” x 4 3/4”.1

 

Publisher:

P. R. Stephensen  41, Museum St., London, W.C.1.3

 

Printer:

The Boltolph Printing Works, Gate Street, Kingsway, W.C.2.3

 

Published At:

London.2

 

Date:

3 February 1930.5

 

Edition:

1st Edition.

 

Pages:

16.2

 

Price:

Priced at six pence.3

 

Remarks:

Printed in response to the cancelation of Crowley’s planned speech before the Oxford University Poetry Society.

 

Pagination:1

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1.

Typescript with corrections in the hand of Aleister Crowley.  Pages:  45.  Warburg Institute Collection.

 

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Bibliographic

Sources:

1.

Dianne Frances Rivers, A Bibliographic List with Special Reference To the Collection at the University of Texas,  Master of Arts Thesis, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1967, pp. 130-131. 

2.

Gerald J. Yorke, Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley in John Symonds The Great Beast, Rider and Co., London & New York, 1951, p. 309.

3.

Personal observation of the item.

4.

Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt:  A Life of Aleister Crowley, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002, p. 347.

5.

Aleister Crowley, The Forbidden Lecture, Mandrake Press Ltd., Essex House, Thame, Oxon., 1990, p. 25.

 

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