1st 2012 70pp Three Hands Press. Quarter red cloth, black boards with design and titling foiled in bronze. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper.
 
Ltd. ed. 800 copies. Third volume in the Occult monographs series. Magic Circles have been depicted in popular expressions of magic and witchcraft as well as detailed with full rubrics in traditional manuals of magic such as the Clavicula Solomonis or Liber Juratus. Using narrative, visual and textual material available from European grimoires and manuscripts, the author discusses the various forms and functions of this important piece of apparatus employed by magicians in the Western Esoteric Tradition, including their role in providing authority and protection to the operator, as well as examples of their use in divination and treasure finding.