Lore of Proserpine

Title: Lore of Proserpine

Author: Hewlett, Maurice

Publication: London: Macmillan and Co., 1913.

Description: First edition of Maurice Hewlett's collection of short stories about fairies and nymphs. Bound in publisher's full blue cloth over boards, with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover and top edge gilt. 7.75 x 5.5 inches; xiii, [1], 287, [1] pages, and 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Former owner's signature on front free endpaper, mild edgewear, and toned endpapers, else a clean and collectible copy. Very Good. This title is listed in Aleister Crowley's "Curriculum of the A∴A∴" as "a suggestive enquiry into the Hermetic Arcanum."