Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells bookmark and David Gandreau

and David Gandreau

Paul Getty Museum July 8 to October 19

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

revealing a unique world of design and imagination

Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells bookmark and David GandreauA 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