Amphora

 

 

The Epilogue to Amphora forms the couplet ‘The Virgin Mary I desire but arseholes set my prick on fire’ formed by reading the first letter of the first word and the first letter of the last word.

     

A simpler acrostic appears in the initial letters of the Prologue.

     

When Catholic circles responded favorably to the book, Crowley removed the epilogue and submitted it anonymously to the firm of Burns & Oates for republication as another edition of Amphora. The book was republished again in 1912 under the title Hail Mary.

 

Published Date:

1908.

Publisher:

Privately published "for the Authoress and Her Intimates."

Printer:

The Arden Press.

Published At:

Letchworth, England.

Pages:

viii + 82.

Price:

 

State (a):

At least one copy printed on coated paper and bound in white vellum.

State (b):

An unknown number of copies printed on wove paper and bound in white buckram.

 

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Contents

 

- Prologue

- Amphora

- Epilogue

 

 

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State (b)