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

Page(s)

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Quotation (Browning)

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Text

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

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.