Mandrake Press
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The Mandrake Press was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephenson in 1929. In 1930 the company had financial problems and a consortium led by Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press Ltd. The new consortium was equally unsuccessful and the company was dissolved in 1930. In eighteen months The Mandrake Press published over 30 items including D. H. Lawrence, The Paintings of D H Lawrence together with works by Liam O'Flaherty, Rhys Davies, Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter Warlock under the pseudonym Rab Noolas, S. S. Koteliansky, Aleister Crowley, Thomas Burke, Cecil Roth, Beresford Egan, W. J. Turner, Brinsley MacNamara, Edgell Rickword, Richard Middleton, V. V. Rozanov, Philip Owens, Vernon Knowles, and others.
At the 1985 Cambridge University Exhibition of the works of The Mandrake Press it was believed that no copies of the Book of Tobit were ever produced — several copies have since been discovered.
External links
- Mandrake Press Ltd. (http://www.mandrake-press.com)
- Mandrake of Oxford (http://www.cix.co.uk/~mandrake/)