The Secret Book of the Black Arts — Henry T. Williams (1878)

The Secret Book of the Black Arts is a sweeping Victorian compendium of occult beliefs, practices, curiosities, and popular supernatural lore.

First published anonymously in 1878 and later attributed in bibliographic records to Henry T. Williams, the book ranges across daemonology, witchcraft, sorcery, astrology, palmistry, mind reading, spiritualism, table turning, ghosts and apparitions, omens, dreams, charms, divination, mesmerism, clairvoyance, alchemy, precious stones, and related branches of the occult sciences.

Part historical survey, part encyclopedia of superstition, and part practical handbook, it captures the nineteenth-century fascination with spiritualism, magic, psychic phenomena, and the hidden forces believed to operate behind ordinary life.

This Holographic Pagan Press edition has been newly restored and prepared for modern readers. Its elaborate period cover has been reconstructed in black on smoky lavender-gray stock and presented in a handmade black tape-bound format.

Each physical copy is printed, assembled, and finished by hand.

This is a newly prepared Holographic Pagan Press edition and not an original antique copy.

Title: The Secret Book of the Black Arts
Author: Anonymous; attributed to Henry T. Williams
Original publication: 1878
Original publisher: Hurst & Co., New York
Original length: 180 pages, plus advertisements
Format: Handmade physical book / PDF
Cover: Smoky lavender-gray card stock with black printing
Binding: Black cloth tape-bound spine
Interior: Black-and-white
Edition publisher: Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press
Condition: Newly produced