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ΘΕΛΗΜΑ
THE
HOLY
BOOKS
- VOLUME
I
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Title: |
The Holy
Books.
(Volume
I). |
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Upper Cover
Lower Cover
Spine
Divisional Title Page
Divisional Title Page
Notice
to Probationer
Upper Cover
Black Morocco
Lower Cover
Black Morocco
Spine
Black Morocco
3 Volumes Bound
as 1 Volume |
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Print
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Printed on Japanese vellum.1
Top edges cut and gilt. Other edges uncut and
unopened.2
Bound in white vellum boards.2
Upper cover stamped in gilt within an ornamental frame
‘ΘΕ | ΛΗ | ΜΑ’.2
Spine stamped in gilt ‘I’2
5 7/16” x 3 5/8”.2
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One copy rebound in 1910 by Zaehnsdorf in full blue
morocco leather and
stamped with gilt.
Presented to Leah Hirsig by Norman Mudd.
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There are known sets of the Holy Books bound in black
morocco by Sangorski
& Sutcliffe.5
Variant bindings are found bound up in three individual
volumes in vellum, white cloth and black cloth as well
as bound as a single volume with similar binding
materials.7
Five sets were printed on vellum and bound by in one volume
in full black, green, yellow, blue and red morocco
leather.1
The
volumes bound in blue, red, and green are known to
survive.8
On 10 April 2013, the O.T.O.
International Headquarters announced that it had come
into possession of James Thomas Windram's personal copy,
in full green leather, of this extremely rare edition of
The Holy Books.3
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Publisher: |
Privately printed.6 |
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Printer: |
Chiswick
Press.6 |
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Published At: |
London.1 |
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Date: |
circa 1909/1910.8 |
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Edition: |
1st
Edition. |
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Pages: |
vi + 64 + vi.2 |
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Price: |
Priced at
1 Guinea for individual volumes.4 Priced
at 10 guineas for three-volume sets bound as a single volume.8 |
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Remarks: |
The text
on the interior pages is printed within a border of gold rules. 4 |
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Pagination:2 |
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[i-vi] |
Blank
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[
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Divisional Title ‘LIBER | L X I | VEL |
CAVSÆ | THE | PRELIMINARY | LECTION | INCLVDING THE |
HISTORY | LECTION’ |
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[
2] |
A\A\
notice |
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[3-12] |
Text |
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Divisional title ‘LIBER | CORDI | SCINC | TISER | PENTE
VEL | LVX | SVB | FIGVRÂ |
ארני’ |
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[
14] |
A\A\
notice |
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[15-62] |
Text |
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[
63] |
Blank |
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[
64] |
Notice to Probationer |
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[i-vi] |
Blank
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Contents: |
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Liber LXI
vel Causae. The Preliminary Lection Including the History
Lection |
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Liber
Cordis Cincti Serpente vel LVX sub figura Adni |
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Author’s
Working
Versions: |
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Other
Known
Editions: |
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Bibliographic
Sources: |
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1. |
Gerald
Yorke, A Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley
(Expanded and Corrected by Clive Harper from Aleister
Crowley, the Golden Dawn and Buddhism:
Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke, Keith
Richmond, editor, The Teitan Press, York Beach, ME,
2011, pp. 51-52. |
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2. |
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. 79-80. |
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3. |
O.T.O. News from
International Headquarters, 10 April
2013, Internet Resources, last accessed on 30 June 2016. |
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4. |
Personal
observation of the item. |
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5. |
Timothy d’Arch Smith, Aleister Crowley’s Aceldama
(1898): The A B Copy’, Book Collector, 56, 2 (Summer
2007), p. 222. |
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6. |
Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law: Liber Al vel
Legis, Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, ME, 2004, p.
152. |
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7. |
Timothy d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast,
Mandrake, Oxford, 1991, p. 120, note 25. |
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8. |
J.
Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk
Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine,
2013, pp. 319-320. |
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