1964 1st Edition , With Provenance
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF MONTAGUE SUMMERS
Foreward By Father Brocard Sewell of the Order of Carmelites
By Timothy D'Arch Smith
UK bibliographer, antiquarian bookseller, and author, whose wit and scholarly predilections – Montague Summers (see Bibliographies), Aleister Crowley, rock 'n' roll, and cricket
Illustrated By: N/A
Format: Hardcover, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 164
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: University Books, New York
Synopsis: This is the first comprehensive, scholarly checklist of the writings of Montague Summers—controversial Catholic cleric, editor, and author of modern classics on witchcraft, demonology, and the vampire. Introduced by Fr. Brocard Sewell (O.Carm.), the book organizes Summers’s output into major sections: his books and pamphlets (with full imprint details, collations, notes on variant issues and bindings); his edited and translated texts (Restoration drama, Gothic fiction, witchcraft sourcebooks); contributions to periodicals and miscellanies; and ephemera such as broadsides, prospectuses, offprints, and reviews.
Entries are fully annotated, noting first editions vs. later printings, publisher and price data, illustrations and plate counts, identified ghost titles and misattributions, and significant provenance or association copies where known. Cross-references, an index, and brief contextual notes help collectors, cataloguers, and scholars authenticate copies and trace Summers’s sometimes labyrinthine publication history.
Originally issued in 1964 in the UK (Nicholas Vane) and near-simultaneously in the US (University Books) with the same pagination, it remained the standard reference until the revised and corrected edition (Montague Summers: A Bibliography, Aquarian Press, 1983).
Bookplate of Donald H. Mader, an independent scholar/bibliographer who wrote on the history of sexuality (“Greek love”), e.g., articles in Paidika and a chapter on Walter H. Breen in Before Stonewall.
SKU: BTETM0001818
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
1964 1st Edition , With Provenance
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF MONTAGUE SUMMERS
Foreward By Father Brocard Sewell of the Order of Carmelites
By Timothy D'Arch Smith
UK bibliographer, antiquarian bookseller, and author, whose wit and scholarly predilections – Montague Summers (see Bibliographies), Aleister Crowley, rock 'n' roll, and cricket
Illustrated By: N/A
Format: Hardcover, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 164
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: University Books, New York
Synopsis: This is the first comprehensive, scholarly checklist of the writings of Montague Summers—controversial Catholic cleric, editor, and author of modern classics on witchcraft, demonology, and the vampire. Introduced by Fr. Brocard Sewell (O.Carm.), the book organizes Summers’s output into major sections: his books and pamphlets (with full imprint details, collations, notes on variant issues and bindings); his edited and translated texts (Restoration drama, Gothic fiction, witchcraft sourcebooks); contributions to periodicals and miscellanies; and ephemera such as broadsides, prospectuses, offprints, and reviews.
Entries are fully annotated, noting first editions vs. later printings, publisher and price data, illustrations and plate counts, identified ghost titles and misattributions, and significant provenance or association copies where known. Cross-references, an index, and brief contextual notes help collectors, cataloguers, and scholars authenticate copies and trace Summers’s sometimes labyrinthine publication history.
Originally issued in 1964 in the UK (Nicholas Vane) and near-simultaneously in the US (University Books) with the same pagination, it remained the standard reference until the revised and corrected edition (Montague Summers: A Bibliography, Aquarian Press, 1983).
Bookplate of Donald H. Mader, an independent scholar/bibliographer who wrote on the history of sexuality (“Greek love”), e.g., articles in Paidika and a chapter on Walter H. Breen in Before Stonewall.
SKU: BTETM0001818
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
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