Stephen Skinner & David Rankine (eds): THE VERITABLE KEY OF SOLOMON
2nd 2015 446pp Golden Hoard. Illustrated. Damage to top of spine, dustwrapper rubbed at edges else VG in VG dustwrapper.
Three versions of The Key of Solomon, the most famous and infamous of the Grimoires ever produced. Yet amazingly only one version of it has ever been published, by S L MacGregor Mathers, over 100 years ago. What Mathers may not have known is that there were much more detailed and complete versions of this grimoire available in many other languages. This is not just a variant of Mathers' text, but a translation of three completely different and beautifully illustrated 1796 French manuscripts of the Key of Solomon. These are the most beautiful and complete manu-scripts of "The Key of Solomon" ever published. Much of the detail omitted from Mathers' edition is given here, providing a complete and workable system of high magic with full details of implements, procedures, and a wide range of talismans.