Dr John Dee's Spiritual Diary (1583-1608). Being a Completely New and Reset Edition of 'A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for Many Years between Dr John Dee and Some Spirits'... Edited by Stephen Skinner
Singapore, Golden Hoard Press, 2011 (fully edited, reset and corrected edition, first thus)/ 1659.
Folio, 678 pages with 26 illustrations.
Gilt-decorated black papered boards very lightly bumped at the extremities; essentially a fine copy with the dustwrapper lightly creased with one tiny edge tear (and the variant title 'Dr John Dee's Spiritual Diaries').
The full subtitle is 'Being British Library Cotton Appendix MS XLVI, parts I & II out of the original copy, written with Dr Dee's own hand, kept in the library of Sir Thomas Cotton, Knight Baronet. With additional material from Bodleian Ashmole MS 1790. Preface by Meric Casaubon DD. Reset in modern typeface, with introduction, supplementary text, additional illustrations, timeline, corrections, notes, and appendices. Edited by Stephen Skinner'.
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