[SOLD] 777 VEL PROLEGOMENA SYMBOLICA AD SYSTEMAM SCEPTICO-MYSTICAE VIAE EXPICANDAE, FUNDAMENTU, HIEROGLYPHICUM SANCTISSIMORUM SCIENTIAE SUMMAE

London and Felling-on-Tyne:  The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1909. First Edition. Limited to 500 Copies. Scarlet Buckram Binding. Gilt title 777 on Front Cover. Without dustwrapper. 6" x 9⅛". Introduction vii-x. + Errata. + Tables of Correspondences pp1-36. + Notes to Table of Correspondences pp37- 54. + Tree of Life diagram showing the paths with corresponding Hebrew letters. + 777 Additional Errata. + Editorial Note. + Advertisement & Form of Subscription for The Equinox. Adhered to front flyleaf is the discreet bookseller’s label of John M. Watkins. Laid in is a Five page MS consisting of three (4⅜" x 6¾") leaves of onion skin paper and two (4⅞" x 7") leaves of parchment bank paper. On the onion skin paper are precisely drawn in black ink, 80 Alchemical Signs with deciphered meanings in English and on three sides of the parchment bank paper in black ink, are handwritten notes concerning the nature of Alchemy and the daily prayer of Paracelsus.     

[It seems that the AT AT did not endorse the Introduction that Aleister Crowley wrote for this 1909 First Edition, as evidenced by this disclaimer which appeared immediately before it.“

[The AT AT has not approved the following Introduction; but in accordance with Its principle of never interfering with the will of others, has permitted the scribe employed to perform the work of tabulation to express his own views.]”This disclaimer does not appear in subsequent editions.]

Condition Good. Covers show wear at edges. Front cover has two round quarter sized water stains and fading along the fore edge. Foxing of endpapers and along some page edges. Minor splitting at front and back hinge. Binding is slightly loose, yet intact. The page with Tree of Life diagram is detached with some damage around edges. Compare with one other Good copy recently listed at $3200.00.