Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells bookmark Jane Louise Curry is the

Jane Louise Curry is the author of many books for young people

and David Gandreau

including the Athenian Acropolis

ISBN 978-0-89236-735-1

Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells bookmark Jane Louise Curry is theA copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but also to enact magic through spells and rituals. To understand the history of these texts is to understand the influence of the major religions, the