This edition includes previously unpublished drawings and ink works that may well have been part of the artist’s wider conception of the Book. Michael Staley provides a eulogy to Kenneth Grant and has contributed an illustrated analytical magical essay entitled "The Resurgence of Cosmic Identity." Along with the evocative introduction by Alan Moore, this edition also includes the original 1913 introduction by Ernest H.R. Collings and the 1975 introduction by Kenneth Grant. All of the graphics and half-tone illustrations have been reproduced from a particularly fresh and well printed copy of the first edition. Illustrated end-papers and divider pages feature photo-montages of the original book, overprinted with designs by Spare in silk varnish. The publishers have also located an original art work from the book and have provided a new reproduction of it for inclusion in this edition. Dr William Wallace offers new research on the development of the Sacred Alphabet. He also analyses the constructive geometry underpinning the many sigils found in The Book of Pleasure.