GRAND GRIMOIRE AGRIPPA LEATHER RARE PROOF EDN BLACK MAGIC OCCULT ENGLISH/ITALIAN

Seattle, WA: Trident Books, 2004. Second Edition, Limited Deluxe. Hardcover. Small octavo. vi+ 122pp. Full black leather goatskin binding, with gilt titles to spine and front cover. Marbled endpapers. Frontis. Illustrations. In a buckram slipcase. Edition limited to 1000 copies. This copy has a printed limitation notice - and a [blank] space in which the copy number was to have been entered - on the verso of the title page. Some copies seen do not have this limitation notice. The text has been completely reset from the earlier (1996) Trident edition. The text of the Grand Grimoire, translated from the 1612 Italian edition, with reference to the 1823 French edition (published with the spurious date 1521 and with the title 'The Red Dragon'). In keeping with the Italian edition, it incorporated and early, short version of the Grimoire known as Le Poule Noire (The Black Hen). The publisher observes: "The Grand Grimoire explains a system for entering into a pact with three Infernal...