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Title:

The Equinox of the Gods. The Official Organ of the A\A\

Upper Cover

Lower Cover

Spine

Cover / Spine

Interior Cover

Pocket

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Stele

Errata Slip

(Close Up)

Folder

(Upper Cover)

Folder

(Lower Cover)

Folder

(Interior)

Manuscript

(Page 1)

Print

Variations:

1,000 copies Printed on Japanese vellum (Japon paper).⁵

Bound in white buckram.⁵

Upper cover stamped in gilt ‘THE | EQUINOX | [seal of the A\A\ | OF THE | GODS’.²

Spine stamped in gilt vertically down the spine ‘THE [eye of horus in a rayed triangle] | Equinox| [then horizontally across the spine] OF THE | [then vertically down the spine] GODS [dove descending]’.²

11 3/8” x 8 3/4”.²

Publisher:

Privately published by the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).³

Printer:

Western Printing Services, Ltd., Bristol.¹

Published At:

London.³

Date:

23 September 1936.⁶

Edition:

First Edition.

Pages:

vi + 137 + unnumbered page + 65 single-sided sheets.⁵

Price:

Priced at 1 guinea.⁴

Remarks:

Bound by Spalding and Hodge.⁴

Printed in 16pt Bembo type.⁴

Has errata slip with 10 items⁵ facing page [138].

A portfolio contained in a pocket at the end of this book contains a photolithographic facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript of The Book of the Law plus the Commentary on The Book of the Law. (65 loose sheets measuring 10 7/16” x 8 3/8”, in a heavy white paper wrapper)

Pagination:²

Page(s)
[ α]	Illustration
[ β]	Paraphrase of stele’s inscription
[ δ]	Paraphrase of stele’s hieroglyphs
[ γ]	Illustration
[ iii]	Title-page
[ iv]	O.T.O. notice
[ v]	Contents
[ vi]	Illustration
[1-11]	Prefatory material
[ 12]	Blank
[ 13]	Ornamental fly-title
[ 14]	O.T.O. notice
[15-137]	Text
[138]	Illustration

Contents:

- The Summons

- A Summary

- Liber Al vel LEGIS

- Genesis Libri Al

Pocket:

- The Comment

- Facsimile of the MS. of Liber AL

Illustrations:

- The Stélé of Revealing

- Four Horoscopes

- First Sketch of a Quabalistic Key to Liber AL

Author’s

Working

Versions:

Aleister Crowley’s printer’s mock-up, with notes and corrections in his hand. Contains galley proofs of the text of the book and 1st proofs of the facsimile manuscript of The Book of the Law. Pages: 80 + 65 facsimiles in pocket on back cover. 27cm. London, BM/JPKH. 1936. Warburg Institute Collection.

Other

Known

Editions:

+	O.T.O., London, 1936 (subscriber's edition).
+	O.T.O., London, 1937.
+	O.T.O., California, Circa 1942.
+	O.T.O., New Jersey, Circa 1955.
+	O.T.O., California, Circa 1987.

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.	J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, pp. 112-113.
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. 118-121.
3.	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. 54-55.
4.	Timothy d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast, Mandrake, Oxford, 1991, p. 19.
5.	Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law: Liber Al vel Legis, Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, ME, 2004, p. 153.
6.	Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 2010, p. 493.

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