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Title: |
The Book
of the Law.
Technically Called Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX as
Delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI. |
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Upper Cover
State (a)
Lower Cover
State (a)
Interior Cover
State (a)
Title Page
State (a)
Upper Cover
State (b)
Lower Cover
State (b)
Spine
State (b)
Cover/Spine
State (b)
Interior Cover
State (b)
Title Page
State (b)
Master Therion
Advertisement for
Equinox of the Gods
Equinox of the Gods
Order Form
Advertisement for
Magick
Life and Liberty
Page 1
Life and Liberty
Page 2 |
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Print
Variations: |
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State (a): |
Printed on machine-made paper.1
All edges cut.1
Staple-bound3 in white card wrappers.4
Upper cover lettered in black ‘THE BOOK | OF THE LAW |
[rule]’3
6 1/2” x 4 7/8”.3 |
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State (b): |
Second
Impression.1
Printed on Glastonbury paper.3
Bottom edge untrimmed.1
Bound in red-orange buckram.1
Upper cover lettered in gilt ‘THE BOOK | OF THE LAW |
[A\A\
lamen]’3
6 3/16” x 4 5/8”.3
Probably no more than
100 copies were printed.6 |
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Publisher: |
Privately
published by the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).1 |
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Printer: |
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Published At: |
London.1 |
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Date: |
21 March 1938.1 |
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Edition: |
First
edition. |
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Pages: |
50 + 1
page advertisements + 1 page order form + 1 page “Offer of
Instruction” + 3 pages of additional advertisements.5 |
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Price: |
Priced at
one shilling for State (a).1
Priced at
two shillings and sixpence net for State (b) [NOTE: The
price on the title page reads "Price one shilling net" with it
being crossed out and "2/6" written in by pen on many
copies.1 |
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Remarks: |
The text of
verse 1:32 in State (a) has the words "heart and tongue" reversed to
read "tongue and heart." This error was corrected in State
(b).7
A copy was presented to Karl
Germer with an inscription by Crowley which read
“To my
dear Brother in the Way. From Ankh-f-n-Khonsu.”2
An additional copy
was presented to Karl Germer with an inscription by Crowley
which read
“Fratri.
ad Magni (paper) Operis sui perfectionem. An XII Sun in
Aries.”2 |
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Pagination:5 |
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[
1] |
Half-title |
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[
2] |
[ornament: dove descending] | ‘Baphomet’ in script |
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[
3] |
Title-page |
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[
4] |
Blank |
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[5-15] |
Introduction |
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[
16] |
A\A\
PUBLICATION IN CLASS A. | [A\A\
lamen] |
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[ 17] |
Divisional title ‘THE BOOK OF THE LAW’ |
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[ 18] |
Blank |
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[19-50] |
Text |
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[ 51] |
Advertisements |
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[ 52] |
Order form |
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[ 53] |
Offer of instruction |
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[54-56] |
Advertisements |
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Contents: |
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Author’s
Working
Versions: |
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1. |
Typescript with corrections in the hand of Aleister
Crowley. Pages: 4.
Warburg Institute Collection. |
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2. |
Bound page proofs of a facsimile edition of Crowley’s
manuscript of the text, with printed version at the foot
of each leaf. Has pencil flyleaf annotation by Gerald
Yorke. Pages: 237-301, facsimiles. 26 cm. London.
19—.
Warburg Institute Collection. |
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3. |
Copy of holograph manuscript. Pages: 65. Box 2,
Folders 8-9.
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX. |
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4. |
Page proofs with revisions in the hand of Aleister
Crowley. Pages: 35. Dated: 1909. Box 2, Folders
8-9.
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX. |
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Other
Known
Editions: |
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Holy Books,
Volume III,
O.T.O., London, 1909. |
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The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 7,
Page 368, Wieland and Co., London, 1912. |
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The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 10,
Page 9, Wieland and Co., London, 1913. |
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AL, Liber Legis. The Book of the Law,
Privately Printed, Tunis, 1926. |
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The Book of the Law,
O.T.O. / Church of Thelema; Pasadena, California, 1942., |
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Equinox of the Gods,
O.T.O., London, 1936. |
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Equinox of the Gods,
O.T.O., London, 1937. |
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Equinox of the Gods,
Wehman Bros., London, 1950’s. |
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Bibliographic
Sources: |
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1. |
Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law: Liber Al vel
Legis, Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, ME, 2004, pp.
154-155. |
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2. |
Bill Heidrick,
Thelema Lodge Calendar, November 1997,
Internet resource last accessed on 27 November 2015. |
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3. |
Personal
observation of the item. |
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4. |
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, p. 52. |
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5. |
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. 117-118. |
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6. |
Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 113, “Aleister
Crowley: Used and Rare Books and Ephemera.” |
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7. |
Marlene Cornelius, Liber AL: an examination¸Conjoined
Creation, Berkeley, CA, 2013, p. 22. |
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Comments
by
Aleister
Crowley: |
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