Frontispiece to the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy Le diable peint par lui-même: ou, Galerie de petits romans, de contes bizarres, d'anecdotes prodigieuses, in which the "author" (Collin De Plancy) is shown chatting to the devil in the night.
Featured on PDR in the essay Defining the Demonic
Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal, a monumental compendium of all things diabolical, was first published in 1818 to much success, it is the fabulously illustrated final edition of 1863 which secured the book as a landmark in the study and representation of demons. Ed Simon explores the work and how at its heart lies an unlikely but pertinent synthesis of the Enlightenment and the occult.
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Frontispiece to the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy Le diable peint par lui-même.
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1863
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Le diable peint par lui-même
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