A couple new grimoires for the collection this Christmas...
I now have hard-cover copies of The Grimoire of St. Cyprian: Clavis Inferni and Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dee's Enochian Tables: Tabularum Bonorum Angelorum Invocationes , both edited by Stephen Skinner and David Rankine.

And before anyone says, yes, I'm aware of some of the questionable scholarship that Rankine has been accused of, but frankly, he's doing a service to some of us by getting editions of these rare works published. I'll let you know what I think later on when I read them.

Speaking of Rankine... I recently had call to reference another of his works, on a case I was working on. The Grimoire in question was The Book of Gold: or Livre d'Or. This is an odd book, but its fascinating nevertheless. Its a rather minor work, but what it entails is a collection of the magical uses of the Psalms.

One of the more interesting things it has was Rankine's comments associating the various Psalms with their other uses throughout other sources. There is a remarkable consistency in their uses.