York Beach, Maine, USA: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv + 126pp. Grey cloth with gilt & black stamped titling & etched cover black lettering to spine, b&w illustrations including many sigils. Black & white portrait and short biography of MacGregor-Mathers on rear dust jacket fold-over.

This copy SIGNED by Gilbert next to his name on the title-page, and initialled by him with his magical name at the end of his Foreword.

Book is in very good ++ condition in like dust-jacket.

The first printing of this new edition of S. L. MacGregor Mathers’ edition of ‘The Key of Solomon the King’, which includes the first publication of a new Foreword by esoteric scholar and expert on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Dr. R. A. Gilbert.  ‘The Key of Solomon the King’ was long accounted as amongst “the most famous, or infamous, of all magical textbooks.” The translation is by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, one of the founders and leaders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, occult scholar, and nemesis of Aleister Crowley. His edition of the “Key of Solomon” was based on 7 manuscripts then housed in the British Museum and was first published in 1888. This edition reproduces all of the text and illustrations of Mathers’ original, along with the new Foreword by Gilbert.