Cunning Magic & Celestial Art by R.A. Priddle (Hellfire Club Books, 2019) Cloth Hardcover Edition Limited to 200 Copies

R.A. Priddle. Cunning Magic & Celestial Art: On the origins of Francis Barrett's 'THE MAGUS 1801' In the Transitional Period of English Magic. Hellfire Club Books, 2019. Cloth hardcover. 109 pages. Limited to 200 hand-numbered copies. Condition: Fine Description from the publisher: R. A. Priddle M.A. This edition200 folio hardcover copies bound in full Bordeaux book cloth with title label, titles gilt to spine This important new study focuses on the origins of modern occultism in the ‘Cunning Traditions’ during the transitional period of English magic, and the formation of a global view of western esotericism. There is one book that has had an enormous impact upon occultism and esoteric philosophy in the modern period, it is ‘The Magus’, first printed in 1801 by the English magician Francis Barrett.           The continued popularity of ‘The Magus’ as a textbook grimoire for both the aspiring occultist and learned magician is well known, its place in the transmission of occult know