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[CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)]

Lot 94
13.02.2025 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1362861
Lot 94 | [CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)]
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
[CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)]
Gargoyles: Being Strangely Wrought Images of Life and Death. Foyers: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1906.
One of two copies printed on vellum: in a binding commissioned by Crowley from Zaehnsdorf in 1907. This copy, in blue morocco inlaid with a red triangle, has the reverse design to the other copy printed on vellum, which is bound in red morocco inlaid with a blue triangle and is conserved in The J.F.C. Fuller Collection of Aleister Crowley, at Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (shelf no. PR 6005 R7 G3 1906b). Other than the two copies on vellum there were fifty copies on hand made paper in Japanese vellum wrappers. Copy No. 1 of 50 was Crowley's own personal copy and was also bound by Zaehnsdorf in 1907 in blue morocco with the same gilt lettering on the spine but with the upper side stamped in gilt with the device of a jester above a gilt skull and cross bones with scythe and arrow. There were a further three hundred ordinary copies. A collection of verse by Crowley, which he had privately printed by the Chiswick Press, dedicated to his lover, Lola who he had met just before he was to split with his wife Rose.

Octavo (165 x 95mm). Title and dedication printed in red and black, final verse on p. 113 printed in red, ‘2/1’ mss. in black ink on contents page. Contemporary blue morocco, upper side inlaid with a red morocco triangle, title gilt in long on spine, edges gilt ruled, turn-ins gilt ruled to a panel design, signed ‘Zaehnsdorf, 1907’, vellum pastedowns and end-leaves, untrimmed (spine very slightly sunned). Provenance: unidentified blind-stamp to rear pastedown — Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate).
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