Drummond, Sir W., the Right Honorable ‘The Oedipus Judaicus’ New Edition Revised – Reeves and Turner, 238, Strand, Next to Temple Bar, London, 1866^[1]. Edition stated limited to 250 copies.

Quarter-leather with paper-covered boards. [1 leaf] + [3] + 2 + xlv + [16 single-sided leaves of plates] + 266

[1] Reset from the exceedingly scarce first edition of 1811

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the limited second edition of 1866

In 1811, Sir William Drummond had published his controversial book Oedipus Judaicus, interpreting certain Old Testament Bible stories as allegorical depictions of the signs of the zodiac, in a very small print run. A limited second edition appeared in 1866, and this is faithfully reproduced here. Although there is no astrological instruction within its pages, the book forms an important part of the cultural astrology of the 19th century.