Summa Spes - 1903

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Title:

Summa Spes.

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Print

Variations:

Printed on one piece of Japanese vellum, 14 1/4” x 9”, folded in 4to, for a finished size of 9” x 7 1/8”.¹, ² Printed on all pages but [2].²

Sewn with green thread.²

Printed in red with an ornamental border in green.¹

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12 copies have a photograph by Haweis and Coles tipped in as a frontispiece and were sent to some of Crowley's friends in Paris on his departure for England.⁴

Publisher:

Privately published.

Printer:

T. Spicer Simpson.¹

Published At:

London.³

Date:

circa June 1903.

Edition:

1st Edition.

Pages:

8 [including cover].

Price:

Remarks:

Has a photograph by Haweis and Coles as a frontispiece on page [2].¹ This is the same photograph later used as the frontispiece in Volume II of The Collected Works.⁴

Pagination:²

Page(s)
[ 1]	Title-page
[ 2]	Blank (with frontispiece mounted thereon)
[3-7]	Text
[ 8]	‘And so—Farewell’ \| [vignette colophon]

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Editions:

+	The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley, Vol. II, Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness, 1906.

Author’s

Working

Versions:

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. 236.
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. 31.
3.	Gerald J. Yorke, “Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley” in John Symonds’ The Great Beast, Rider and Co., London & New York, 1951, p. 302.
4.	Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Hill & Wang, New York, 1969, p. 341.

Comments by

Aleister

Crowley:

I went through life at this time with a kind of cynical bonhomie; nothing was really any particular good, so I might as well do what was expected of me. I wrote even of Buddhism with a certain detached disenchantment, as may be seen by reference to my Summa Spes, which I published separately (twelve copies contain the portrait of me by Haweis and Coles, subsequently reproduced in volume II of the vellum edition of my Collected Works) and sent to some of my friends in Paris on my departure for England.

— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 341.

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