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THE
HONOURABLE
ADULTERERS
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Title: |
The
Honourable Adulterers. |
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Interior Cover
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5
copies printed on smooth, purplish paper.1
Bound with staples3 in blue wrappers.1
Upper cover lettered ‘The | Honourable Adulterers | A
TRAGEDY | BY | A. E. C. | 1899’.2
8 3/8” x 5 1/2”.2
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Publisher: |
Privately
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Printer: |
The
Chiswick Press.1 |
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Published At: |
London.1 |
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Date: |
circa July 1899. |
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Edition: |
1st
Edition. |
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Pages: |
8.1 |
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Remarks: |
This series of three pamphlets, including “Jephthah” and “The
Poem” were printed from the paged type of
“Jephthah and Other
Mysteries,”
which was then in the press, and were issued
separately as advance editions.1 |
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Pagination:2 |
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[119-126] |
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Author’s
Working
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Bound holograph manuscript with revisions in the hand of
Aleister Crowley. Pages: 367. Dated: 1898. Box 7,
Folders 5-6.
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX. |
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Printed version with revisions in the hand of Aleister
Crowley. Pages: 224. Dated: 1898. Box 7, Folder 7.
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX. |
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Other
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Editions: |
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Jephthah and Other Mysteries. Lyrical and Dramatic.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, 1899. |
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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley, Vol. I,
Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth,
Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness, 1905. |
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Bibliographic
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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, pp.
233-234. |
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, p. 11. |
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Personal observation of the item. |
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by
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