The Grand Grimoire translated by Gretchen Ruby and edited by Antonio Venitiana del Rabina
Publication: 2004 Trident Books Second Edition Limited to 1000 copies, this copy is not numbered.
The Grand Grimoire is translated from the 1612 Italian edition, referencing the 1823 French edition titled “The Red Dragon,” published with the misleading date of 1521. It also includes an early version called Le Poule Noire (The Black Hen)..
From the publisher: "The Grand Grimoire explains a system for entering into a pact with three Infernal Spirits, Lucifer, Ashtaroth & Beelzebuth, through the authority of the Prime Minister of Hell, Lucifuge Rofocale. In this, the demonology of the Grand Grimoire is unique; while some of the chief spirits are identical to those in Grimoirium Verum, and others to Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis vel Regis, the Grand Grimoire stands alone in the literature of demonology with its central figure, Lucifuge Rofocale. The name 'Rofocale' appears to be an anagram for 'Focalor' of the Lemegeton, according to Elizabeth Butler in her Ritual Magic (1949) who goes on to tell us that "by introducing the name of Lucifuge the author has done a service to demonology for which it should be grateful." In his monumental work Of Black Magic & Of Pacts (1898), Arthur E. Waite states that the Grand Grimoire "must be regarded as the veritable Magnum Opus"
Condition: black cloth, gilt title to spine, about Fine