The Azoëtia
The Book of the Magical Quintessence
Azoëtia or ‘The Book of the Magical Quintessence’ has become one of the most sought-after new magical works of our time and may be regarded as the foundation text of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition. Azoëtia is comprised of three main parts: an exposition of preliminary magico-aesthetic formulae with detailed descriptions of working tools; the full text of the Sabbatic Rituals of Ingress, Congress, and Egress; and an eleven-chaptered Grimoirium detailing the arcana and composite practices of the Sacred Alphabet – the twenty-two lettered code of sorcerous principles underlying the practical spectrum of the Arte Magical. The entire work intends the reification of traditional British cunning-craft praxis according to the spiritual vision and artistry of a contemporary initiate.
1st Edition Paperback
Octavo (9" x 6"). 362pp. Original printed paper wrappers. Numerous black and white plates and diagrams. The true first edition of the late Andrew Chumbley's "The Azoetia," limited to 300 numbered copies.
Original price £15
Sethos - Standard Edition
Hollen green boards, brown endsheets, gold stamping of the Wheel of the Sacred Alphabet, limited to 484 hand-numbered copies.
Original Price £40
Sethos - Deluxe Edition
Gold-stamped hollen green boards and slip-case, quarter-bound in fair goatskin, English marbled endsheets, limited to 44 hand-numbered copies; 22 with red ribbon, 22 with black. Each copy accompanied by a talismanic card for the Sacred Alphabet and the Patron Daimon of the Book, each card hand-produced and signed by the author.
Original Price £70
Sethos - Special Edition
Gold stamping on natural full Nigerian goatskin, slip-cased in hollen green box with additional stamping, hand-made English marbled endpapers, limited to 11 hand-numbered and sigillised copies for internal distribution only. Each copy was accompanied by a talismanic card dedicated to one of the eleven Aats with an invocation to Sethos, the Patron Daimon of the Book; each card hand-produced and signed by the author.
Sethos - Behena or ‘Black’ edition
Published May 15th, 2003: silver stamping on black boards and slip-case, black-on-black endpapers, black ribbon marker, limited to 77 copies only. Each copy is accompanied by an eight-page text in plain card covers, entitled ‘The Rite of Amethystine Light’, hand-produced and signed by the author; also a small talisman hand-painted in walnut ink on oriental snakeskin paper. From the perspective of the author, the ritual serves to complete the foundation of the Azoëtic phase of magical work 1992-2003 and to open the way for the Draconist Path ahead.
Original Price £88
Sethos - X-Series or ‘Twin-Lions’
Released October 31, 2003: gold stamping on hollen-green boards and slip-case, black-on-black endpapers, black ribbon marker, limited to 22 copies only.
3rd Ed - Standard edition
1,000 hand-numbered copies in gilt black cloth with dust jacket, with custom endpapers.
£75
3rd Ed - Deluxe edition
111 hand-numbered copies in half crimson goat, marbled endpapers, and slipcase.
£320
3rd Ed - Special edition
22 copies in full alum-tawed goat, hand-marbled endpapers and gilt-blocked slipcase, each copy bearing the sign of one of the twenty-two Sacred Letters of the Azoëtic continuum.
£480
Photographs of Sethos: Standard Edition, Sethos: Deluxe Edition, Sethos: Special Edition, Sethos: Twin Lions Edition © Thompson Rare Books.
