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The Poem.  A Little Drama in Four Scenes.

 

 

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Staples Detail

 

Dedication

 

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Print

Variations:

10 copies printed on smooth paper.1

Bound with staples2 in white Japanese vellum wrappers repeating title page.1

Upper cover lettered ‘THE POEM | A LITTLE DRAMA IN FOUR SCENES | BY | ALEISTER CROWLEY | PRIVATELY PRINTED | LONDON | 1898’.2 

8 1/2” x 5 3/8”.2

 

Publisher:

Privately published.

 

Printer:

Chiswick Press.1

 

Published At:

London.1

 

Date:

circa November 1898.1

 

Edition:

1st Edition.

 

Pages:

20.1

 

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Remarks:

This series of three pamphlets, including “Jephthah” and “The Honourable Adulterers” 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

 

Pagination:2

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Title-page

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Fly-title

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Dedication

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Scene and persons of the play

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Author’s

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Versions:

1.

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.

2.

Printed version with revisions in the hand of Aleister Crowley.  Pages:  224.  Dated:  1898.  Box 7, Folder 7.  Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX.

 

Other

Known

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.

 

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, 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. 9.

 

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