(Spiritualism, Black Arts) | The Fatal Book Opened!

(Spiritualism, Black Arts)

The Fatal Book Opened! ... Cabalistics, Necromancy, and the Black Art ... Otley: William Walker, [ca. 1830]

Broadside (608 x 380 mm). Printed in an assortment of types in three columns, large woodcut showing the subject John Albert acquiring the awful knowledge, surrounded by an array of otherworldly beasts and ghouls; light toning and offsetting, separated along the center horizontal fold with a few losses, additional marginal chips. 

A lurid broadside showing the dangers of the "Awful Knowledge" of the black arts. Buyer beware, lest you accidentally summon the "Terrible One"! 

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 193; Magic, p. 30