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Gargoyles.
Being Strangely Wrought Images of Life and Death. |
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Crowley's Personal Copy
State (b)
Upper Cover
State (b)
Lower Cover
State (b)
Spine
State (b)
Turned-In Cover Detail
State (b)
Limitation Page
State (b)
Upper Cover
State (b)
Leather Binding
Lower Cover
State (b)
Leather Binding
Spine
State (b)
Leather Binding
Interior Cover
State (b)
Leather Binding
Zaehnsdorf
State (b)
Leather Binding
Upper Cover
State (c)
Lower Cover
State (c)
Spine
State (c)
Interior Cover
State (c)
Advertisements
State (b) & (c)
Title Page
All States
Page 1
All States
Page 113
All States
Chiswick Press
All States
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Print
Variations: |
State (a): |
2
copies printed on Roman vellum.1
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One copy bound by Zaehnsdorf in 1907 in red morocco
leather. [see images at right]
This copy currently resides in the Harry Ransom Center,
University of Texas, Austin, Texas,
(Call No.
PR 6005
R7 G3 1906b).
‘BOUND
BY ZAEHNSDORF 1907’ stamped at bottom of inside upper
cover.2
Upper cover is inlaid with a blue triangle.2
Spine is stamped in gilt vertically down the spine
‘GARGOYLES’.2
Interior dentelles stamped in gilt.3
Double lines stamped in gilt on all outside edges of upper
and lower covers. A series of short double lines
stamped in gilt in a semi-circle along the top and
bottom of spine, following the curvature of the spine.3
6 1/2” x 3 3/4”.2 |
State (b): |
50
copies printed on hand-made paper.1
Bound in white turned-in Japanese vellum wrappers.2
Upper cover lettered in gilt ‘GARGOYLES’.2
Numbered and signed (Some copies unsigned).3
6 1/2” x 3 7/8”.2
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Copy No. 1 of 50 was Crowley's own personal copy and was
bound by Zaehnsdorf in 1907 in blue leather.5
Upper cover stamped in gilt with a grinning gargoyle /
jester above a device composed of a skull and bones over
a crossed scythe and arrow.5
Spine
lettered in gilt down the spine
‘G
| A | R | G | O | Y | L | E | S’5
Copies No. 9 & 36 of 50 currently reside in the Harry
Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas,
(Call No.
PR 6005
R7 G3 1906). |
State (c): |
300 copies printed on machine-made paper.1
Bound in blue-gray cloth.2
Upper cover lettered in red ‘GARGOYLES’.2
Spine lettered horizontally across spine in red
‘GARGOYLES | [rule] | ALEISTER | CROWLEY | 1906’.3
6 9/16” x 3 3/4”.2 |
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Publisher: |
Society
for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.).1 |
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Printer: |
Chiswick
Press, Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane,
London.1 |
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Published At: |
Boleskine,
Foyers, Inverness.1 |
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Date: |
1906.1 |
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Edition: |
1st
Edition. |
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Pages: |
vi + 113.1 |
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Price: |
Priced at
three shillings and sixpence.1
Later sold for five shillings.4 |
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Remarks: |
Title page
& Page 1 printed in black and red.1
Page 113 printed in red.1
Copy # 9 of State (b) went to Frank Harris. |
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Pagination:2 |
Page(s) |
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State (a): |
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[α-β] |
Blanks |
[
i] |
Half-title |
[
ii] |
Blank |
[
iii] |
Title-page in red and black |
[
iv] |
Blank |
[v-vi] |
Contents |
[1-2] |
Dedication in red and black (to Lola Bentrovata) |
[
3] |
Divisional title ‘IMAGES OF LIFE’ |
[
4] |
Blank |
[5-58] |
Text |
[59] |
Divisional title ‘IMAGES OF DEATH’ |
[60] |
Blank |
[61-112] |
Text |
[113] |
Dedicatory epilogue printed in red (to Lola Bentrovata) |
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Colophon ‘CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. |
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.’ |
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State (b): |
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[
α] |
Blank |
[
β] |
Advertisements ‘Works by the Same Author’ |
[
i] |
Half-title |
[
ii] |
Limitation notice ‘Fifty copies only printed of this
edition on handmade paper, all of which are numbered and
signed.’ |
[
iii] |
Title-page in red and black |
[
iv] |
Blank |
[v-vi] |
Contents |
[1-2] |
Dedication in red and black (to Lola Bentrovata) |
[
3] |
Divisional title ‘IMAGES OF LIFE’ |
[
4] |
Blank |
[5-58] |
Text |
[59] |
Divisional title ‘IMAGES OF DEATH’ |
[60] |
Blank |
[61-112] |
Text |
[113] |
Dedicatory epilogue printed in red (to Lola Bentrovata) |
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Colophon ‘CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. |
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.’ |
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State (c): |
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[
α] |
Blank |
[
β] |
Advertisements |
[
i] |
Half-title |
[
ii] |
Blank |
[
iii] |
Title-page in red and black |
[
iv] |
Blank |
[v-vi] |
Contents |
[1-2] |
Dedication in red and black (to Lola Bentrovata) |
[
3] |
Divisional title ‘IMAGES OF LIFE’ |
[
4] |
Blank |
[5-58] |
Text |
[59] |
Divisional title ‘IMAGES OF DEATH’ |
[60] |
Blank |
[61-112] |
Text |
[113] |
Dedicatory epilogue printed in red (to Lola Bentrovata) |
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Colophon ‘CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. |
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.’ |
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Contents: |
- To Lola
Bentrovata
Prologue: Via Vitae
- The White Cat
- Ali and Hassan
- Al Mahk
- Song
- Amica
- Tarshitering
- A Fragment
- The Stumbling-Block
- Woodcraft
- A Nugget from a Mine
- Au Caveau des Innocents
- Rosa Inferni
- Diogenes
- Said
- Prayer
- Prologue: Patchouli
- Kali
- The Jilt
- The Eyes of Pharoah
- Banzai
- Le Jour des Morts
- Ave Mors
- The Moribund
- The Beauty and the Bhikkhu
- Immortality
- Epilogue: The King Ghost (Dedicatory epilogue to Lola Bentrovata) |
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Author’s
Working
Versions: |
1. |
Bound holograph manuscript with revisions in the hand of
Aleister Crowley. Pages: 125. Dated: 1906. Box 7,
Folder 1.
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX. |
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Other
Known
Editions: |
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Bibliographic
Sources: |
1. |
L. C. R.
Duncombe-Jewell, Notes Towards An Outline of
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Aleister Crowley, The Works of Aleister Crowley,
Volume III, Appendix A, Gordon Press, New York, 1974, p.
239. |
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. 60-62.
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3. |
Personal observation of the item. |
4. |
Aleister Crowley, Konx Om Pax, Society for the
Propagation of Religious Truth / Walter Scott Publishing
Co., Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness / London, 1907, Walter
Scott publishing catalog (bound in back of book), p. 2. |
5. |
David Meyer,
“Along
Came Lund”,
Caxtonion: Journal of the Caxton Club, Volume XXII, No.
1, January 2014, p. 3. |
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Comments
by
Aleister
Crowley: |
My
activities as a publisher were at this time remarkable. I had
issued The God-Eater and The Star & the Garter
through Charles Watts & Co. of the Rationalist Press
Association, but there was still no such demand for my books as
to indicate that I had touched the great heart of the British
public. I decided that it would save trouble to publish them
myself. I decided to call myself the Society for the Propagation
of Religious Truth, and issued The Argonauts, The
Sword of Song, the Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King,
Why Jesus Wept, Oracles, Orpheus,
Gargoyles and The Collected Works. I had simply no
idea of business. Besides this, I was in no need of money; my
responsibility to the gods was to write as I was inspired; my
responsibility to mankind was to publish what I wrote. But it
ended there. As long as what I wrote was technically accessible
to the public through the British Museum, and such places, my
hands were clean.
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 405.
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My
activities as a publisher were in themselves a sort of practical
joke. It amused me to bewilder and shock people. I took nothing
seriously except my occult life at any time and that was at
present more or less in abeyance. I wrote one or two poems at
this time, notably Rosa Inferni, before Rose joined me in
St. Moritz, and somehow or other I had written the fourth book
of Orpheus part of which is inspired by my experience in
Egypt. I published them at once. They had never satisfied me;
the form was theoretically impossible. On the other hand, the
lyrics and some of the dramatic dialogue are as good as anything
in my work. I felt that one part of my life was drawing to a
close. I made a clean sweep of my literary dustbin. I had its
contents carted away and dumped on the public. I felt myself to
be on the brink of a new birth and in Gargoyles will be
found the first fruits of that new life.
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 416. |
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