The cover page for the 1826 edition reads: “Anecdotes du dix-neuvième siècle ou historiettes inédites, anedoctes récentes, traits et mots peu connus, aventures singulières, citations, rapprochements divers et pièces curieuses, pour servir à l’histoire des mœurs et de l’esprit du siècle où nous vivons comparé aux siècles passésĪnecdotes of the nineteenth century or stories, recent anecdotes, features and little known words, singular adventures, various quotations, compilations and curious pieces, to be used for the history of the customs and the mind of the century in which we live, compared with centuries past.” This book attempts to provide an account of all the knowledge concerning superstitions and demonology. MacGregor Mathers’s edition of The Lesser Key of Solomon though some of the images were removed. The book was first published in 1818 and then divided into two volumes, with six reprints and many changes between 18. Many of these images were later used in S. These illustrations are drawings which try to depict the descriptions of the appearance of several demons. There were several editions of the book, but perhaps the most famous is the edition of 1863, in which sixty-nine illustrations were added to the book.

It was written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy and first published in 1818. The Dictionnaire Infernal (English: Infernal Dictionary) is a book on demonology, organised in hellish hierarchies.

Dictionnaire infernal 1863