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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Second Edition. Second Edition. Hardcover. 12.5" x 9.5". 158pp. Hardcover paper over boards with cloth spine lettered in red gilt. Very mild shelf wear, else like new. From the publisher: A full-color facsimile of an 18th-century black-magic compendium. Touch Me Not is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts, completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly, it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes, the manuscript "appears at first sight to be a 'grimoire' or magician's manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use, animal sacrifice, sigillary body art, masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits, and the black magician's highest ambition-an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil-can be fulfilled." Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection, Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox, scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript.…

limited edition, 8°, 194 S. mit 63 Farb- und 13 s/w-Abbildungen, Text: englisch, schwarzer original Seidentafteinband mit glänzend-schwarzer Rückenbeschriftung und dem illustr. original Schutzumschlag, sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar ohne nennenswerte Mängel, noch in der schützen Klarsichthülle (diese aber nicht auf unserer Abbildung) Introduction (Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd and Jesse Bransford) / Ingestion and Descent: The Chthonic Realms of Leonora Carrington (Susan L. Aberth) / The Dark Mark: Tattoo as Ritual of Transformation (Natan Alexander) / The Empress, 2015 (Lindsey Bull) / Self-Obliteration through Self-Love (David Burrows) / The Sitters (Tom Butler) / Etruscan Monochromes (Gean Moreno) / Transformation of the Everyday Material Magic in Jan vankmajer's Art and Films (Kristoffer Noheden) / Le Bal: Bewitching the Classical Body (Katerina Pantelides) / Abject Bodies and Places of Enchantment (Deanna Petherbridge) / Embodying the Androgyne: Psychoanalysis and Alchemical Desire in Max Ernst's Men Shall Know Nothing of This - 1923 (Daniel Zamani) Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend, close to Musterschule) is possible. It saves the shipping costs.…