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[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] One: The Grimoire of the Golden Toad (Deluxe 2nd Edition, with Original Xoanon Prospectus)
[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] One: The Grimoire of the Golden Toad (Deluxe 2nd Edition, with Original Xoanon Prospectus)
[Hercules, CA]: Xoanon Publishing, 2025. 2nd Edition. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket, octavo. In slipcase. 80 pages. Deluxe edition limited to 77 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 29. Quarter-bound in blue goatskin and blue mohair, gold device to front, spine titled in gold. Marbled endsheets. Black page marker ribbon. Comes with a unique letterpress talisman bearing a prayer unto SABATRAXAS, written by Chumbley. Also included is the original two-sided Xoanon prospectus announcing the book. Fine all around.
This unique grimoire was first published in the year 2000, marking the cusp of the old and the new chiliad. It is the first full grimoire-text to treat specifically and from personal account of the Traditional East Anglian ritual called ‘The Waters of the Moon’: the solitary initiation of the so-called ‘Toad-witch’. The textualisation of this magical process was, in this unique instance, undertaken as an extension of the ritual itself – a perfection of its cycle of arcana to a point of individual crystallisation. The book contains the précis of the ancient Toad-Bone ritual, an account of the author’s own experience with the rite, and an exposition of its governing spirits and arcana via Sabatraxas, the Toad-Devil.