Creator
Aleister Crowley
Title
The Sword of Song
Coverage
Paris
Publisher
Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth
Date
1904
Subject
First edition. Large quarto. Original gold-printed blue paper wrappers. Only 100 copies printed.
Description
This is the first time Crowley identified himself as “The Beast 666”: we see on the upper wrapper he has tastefully snuck in the number 666 three times.
Annotated by Gerald Yorke, a one-time student of Crowley’s. Yorke was a wealthy Englishman, who after Crowley died attempted to bring together all of Crowley’s papers and books into a single collection. That collection now resides in the Warburg Institute in London.
Source
From the collection of Matthew Andrews
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