Rosa Coeli

A Poem with an Original

Composition by Auguste Rodin

 

Auguste Rodin provided Crowley with ten sketches for his use in Rodin in Rime for which Crowley used only seven. The remaining three sketches were used for Rosa Mundi, Rosa Coeli, and Rosa Inferni. The frontispiece is a color lithograph of executed by Auguste Clot after an original pencil and wash design by Auguste Rodin.

     

Published under the pseudonym of H. D. Carr. Crowley “borrowed” the surname of Auguste Rodin's wife Katie Carr and used it to form his pseudonym.

 

Published Date:

1907.

Publisher:

Privately published by the author.

Printer:

Chiswick Press.

Published At:

London, England.

Pages:

x + 17 + vi.

Price:

State (b) priced at 3 Guineas net.

State (c) priced at 16 shillings.

State (a):

2 copies printed on vellum.

State (b):

10 copies printed on China paper and bound in blue wrappers.

State (c):

488 copies printed on hand-made paper and bound in blue wrappers.

 

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Contents

 

- Rosa Coeli

 

 

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