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NATURAL MAGICK by Giambattista della Porta – Hardcover Edition

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NATURAL MAGICK by Giambattista della Porta – Hardcover Edition

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  • Hardcover bound in moss-green Geltex
  • Artwork printed in dark green hot foil on the cover and spine 
  • Printed on wood free and age resistant 90 g cream paper
  • Sewn book block
  • Green ribbon marker and headbands
  • Approx 600 Pages
  • Measures 176 x 246 mm

Published by Black Letter Press

  • Revised and Edited by Paul Summers Young
  • Cover design by Andrei Bouzikov
  • Illustrations revised by Lea Pieper

Our edition of Della Porta’s Natural Magick is based on the 1658 London edition, which in turn was a translation of the expanded Latin edition of 1589 in twenty books. It includes the suppressed chapter Lamiarum Unguenta / The Witches’ Ointment in both English and the original Latin. 

Paul Summers Young has newly transcribed and edited the 1658 text, whose eccentricities make for a notoriously laborious read. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised while retaining the Early Modern character of the original; its flavour as a mid-seventeenth century text has been preserved. Rational paragraphing makes it much easier to follow the author’s line of thought, making difficult passages a much more enjoyable experience. This is greatly assisted by a new layout and typesetting.

This edition includes the original twenty-page table of contents, A Table containing the General Heads of Natural Magick, and an introduction by Paul Summers Young on the significance of the text, and what a close examination might reveal about its origins. 

 

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