Mandrake Press

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 Rickwood, 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.

• Mandrake Press Ltd. (1989 - ) Europes leading mail order supplier of New Age, Metaphysical and Occult products. Mandrake Press Ltd. has an extensive stock catalogue of books, Tarot decks, oils, incense, powders and candles. They supply to both private customers and the retail sector. Mandrake Press Ltd also publishes many books on magic and the occult under the imprints: Mandrake Press; I-H-O Books and Pentacle Enterprises.

• Mandrake of Oxford (1986 - ) is a specialist independent publisher. They originally began trading in 1986 as Golden Dawn Publications with the publication of the magical journal Nuit Isis. They are also book sellers dealing in titles covering many aspects of magic and the occult.