Occult & Esoterica
[HAMILTON-GILES, Peter] Book of the Black Dragon Vol. 1 (Umbra Edition)
[HAMILTON-GILES, Peter] Book of the Black Dragon Vol. 1 (Umbra Edition)
Full title: Book of the Black Dragon Vol 1. Et Nigrum Draconicum: Being the Theory of the Black Dragon
Illustrations by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles
[UK]: Atramentous Press, 2024. Small quarto. 416pp. Stated as “Library Edition” on copyright page but This copy differs from the “Library Edition” currently offered on the publisher’s website. According to the author, this is the “Umbra Edition”, which was made to look like a bible. Bound in oversized limp leather covers with blind stamp to front and gilt decorations to spine. All edges gilt. Laid in is a small card featuring an original artwork by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles, which is SIGNED on the back by Peter Hamilton-Giles. Includes full page illustrations by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles, plus additional seals and sigils. The book is housed in a black box. All components in fine condition. Quite scarce. This Umbra Edition was offered for sale for a very short time and then orders were closed. It is rarely seen in the marketplace.
The first volume of a proposed three volume work on the Black Dragon which addresses the sorcery associated with the dirt track road, which must forever be adumbrated by the outer precinct of the crooked path, for this inner sanctum presents the dirt ridden yet adamantine road which leads to the Black Dragon and the great mystery of telluric sorcery. It began as a realization of a work that was formed by the Dragon’s Column, this being the working group that went on to contribute towards Andrew Chumbley writing The Dragon Book of Essex.