Frederick Hockley: A COMPLETE BOOK OF MAGIC SCIENCE
2008 116pp Teitan Press small hardback. Illustrated including colour. Black cloth boards with titling foiled in gold. Front board bowing outwards slightly else near fine.
Ltd. ed. 63/450. Until this edition the grimoire was known only to exist only in the form of several nineteenth century manuscripts, which are said to have been transcribed by Frederick Hockley (1809-1885) from "an ancient Latin manuscript," dated 1519. However, recent research suggests the these manuscripts were probably actually written by Hockley himself, although he obviously made use of a variety of earlier sources. Curiously the work known as The Secret Grimoire of Turiel, seems to have been derived from it, although A Complete Book of Magic Science is lengthier and contains much additional material.

