Barrett (Francis) The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer, 1801 [but 1875].

Barrett (Francis) The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer, 23 plates, of which 5 hand-coloured, portrait frontispiece detached, occasional soiling, top part of front free endpaper cut away, small leather book-label of Haven O'More, original morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, 1801 [but 1875].

⁂ A facsimile reprint of the 1801 edition - "Composed in the Christian tradition, TheMaguswas a farrago of Renaissance alchemy and natural and talismatic magic that fitted contemporary Gothic taste ... The book's most startling feature was a set of gargoyle-like portraits of demons conjured up in ritual magic ceremonies." (ODNB)