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Variation #1 (1936) |
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Published Date: |
23 September 1936. |
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Publisher: |
Privately published by the Ordo Templi
Orientis (O.T.O.). |
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Printer: |
Western Printing Services, Ltd.,
Bristol. |
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Published At: |
London, England. |
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Pages: |
vi + 137 + unnumbered page + 65
single-sided sheets. |
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Price: |
Priced at 1 guinea.
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Edition: |
1,000 copies printed on Japanese vellum
(Japon paper) and bound in white buckram.
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Remarks: |
Bound by Spalding and Hodge.
Printed in 16pt Bembo type.
Has errata slip with 10 items facing
page 138.
A portfolio contained in a pocket at
the end of this book contains a photolithographic facsimile
reproduction of the original manuscript of The Book of the
Law plus the Commentary on The Book of the Law. (65 loose
sheets measuring 10 7/16” x 8 3/8”, in a heavy white paper
wrapper)
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Variation #2 (1937) |
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Published Date: |
December 1937. |
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Publisher: |
Privately published by the Ordo Templi
Orientis (O.T.O.). |
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Printer: |
Western Printing Services, Ltd.,
Bristol. |
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Published At: |
London, England. |
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Pages: |
vi + 137 + unnumbered page + 65
single-sided sheets. |
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Price: |
Priced at 1 guinea.
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Edition: |
Unknown number of copies printed on
Japanese vellum (Japon paper) and bound in white buckram.
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Remarks: |
This edition has a cancel slip changing
the last threes lines of the title-page to ‘An Ixi in |
DECEMBER MCMXXXVII E.V. | Privately issued by the O.T.O. |
BCM/ANKH 188 High Holburn, W.C. 2’.
Printed in 16pt Bembo type.
Has errata slip with 17 items facing
page 138.
A portfolio contained in a pocket at
the end of this book contains a photolithographic facsimile
reproduction of the original manuscript of The Book of the
Law plus the Commentary on The Book of the Law. (65 loose
sheets measuring 10 7/16” x 8 3/8”, in a heavy white paper
wrapper) |
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Variation #3 (1937) (Subscriber's
Edition) |
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Published Date: |
December 1937. |
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Publisher: |
Privately published by the Ordo Templi
Orientis (O.T.O.). |
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Printer: |
Western Printing Services, Ltd.,
Bristol. |
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Published At: |
London, England. |
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Pages: |
vi + 137 + unnumbered page + 65
single-sided sheets. |
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Price: |
Priced at 11 shillings.
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Edition: |
250 copies printed on machine-made
paper and bound in orange paper boards with a blue cloth
spine.
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Remarks: |
This edition has a cancel slip changing
the last three lines of the title-page to ‘An Ixi in |
DECEMBER MCMXXXVII E.V. | Privately issued by the O.T.O. |
BCM/ANKH 188 High Holburn, W.C. 2’.
Bound by Key & Whiting, Canonbury,
London.
Printed in 16pt Bembo type.
Has errata slip with 17 items5 facing
page 138.
A portfolio contained in a pocket at
the end of this book contains a photolithographic facsimile
reproduction of the original manuscript of The Book of the
Law plus the Commentary on The Book of the Law. (65 loose
sheets measuring 10 7/16” x 8 3/8”, in a heavy white paper
wrapper). |
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Variation #4 (1942) |
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Published Date: |
circa 1942. |
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Publisher: |
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Printer: |
Western Printing Services, Ltd.,
Bristol. |
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Published At: |
California, U.S.A. |
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Pages: |
vi + 137 + 1 un-numbered page. |
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Price: |
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Edition: |
Unknown number of copies printed and
bound in a similar style as the original 1936 edition.
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Remarks: |
Circa 1942, and probably earlier, an
unknown number of sets of unbound sheets were sent to
Wilfred Talbot Smith in the U.S.. Binding of the sheets
was done locally in the style of the original 1936 edition.
Has an errata slip with 17 items. |
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Variation #5 (1955) |
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Published Date: |
circa 1955. |
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Publisher: |
Privately published by the Ordo Templi
Orientis (O.T.O.). / Wehman Bros. |
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Printer: |
Western Printing Services, Ltd.,
Bristol. |
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Published At: |
New York, New York / Hackensack, New
Jersey. |
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Pages: |
vi + 137 + 1 un-numbered page. |
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Price: |
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Edition: |
Bound using approximately 900 copies of
unbound sheets from Crowley's 1937 edition.
Printed on Japansese vellum (Japon
paper) and bound in maroon cloth.
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Remarks: |
This issue is made from original
unbound sheets left over from the second issue originally
printed in 1937 and is missing the pocket with The Comment
on The Book of the Law and the photolithographic facsimile
reproduction of the original manuscript of The Book of the
Law.
Not all copies have the color plates of
the Stele.
Approximately 900 copies of unbound
sheets from the 1937 printing were passed to Samuel Weiser
by Karl Germer where they were trimmed from their original
size, bound and distributed.
The foot of the title-page may be
rubber stamped WEHMAN BROS. | PUBLISHERS | 712 BROADWAY, N.
Y.’
A variation of this rubber stamp has
been reported as ‘WEHMAN BROS. | PUBLISHER | 158 MAIN STREET
| HACKENSACK, N.J.’
Although this issue does not have the
pocket at the rear of the volume that held a folder
containing single-sided manuscript copies of the Book of the
Law, some copies of this issue were sold with the manuscript
copies in the original folder placed in a specially printed
buff-colored envelope.
Some copies had a cancel imprint label
pasted on the title page that read "Occult Research Press,
117 Fourth Avenue, New York, New York" which, at the time,
was the name of Samuel Weiser’s publishing business. |
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Contents |
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- The Summons
- A Summary
- Liber Al vel LEGIS
- Genesis Libri Al
Pocket:
(some editions)
- The Comment
- Facsimile of the MS. of
Liber AL
Illustrations:
- The Stélé of Revealing
- Four Horoscopes
- First Sketch of a
Quabalistic Key to Liber AL |
