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 +"In the following pages I have endeavoured to show the [[witch]] as she really was – an evil liver: a social pest and parasite: the devotee of a loathly and obscene creed: an adept at poisoning, blackmail, and other creeping crimes: a member of a powerful secret organisation inimical to Church and State: a blasphemer in word and deed, swaying the villagers by terror and superstition: a charlatan and a quack sometimes: a bawd: an abortionist: the dark counsellor of lewd court ladies and adulterous gallants: a minister to vice and inconceivable corruption, battening upon the filth and foulest passions of the age."--''[[The History of Witchcraft and Demonology]]'' (1926) by Montague Summers
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-'''Augustus Montague Summers''' (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an [[English author]] and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on [[witchcraft]], [[vampire]]s, and [[werewolf|werewolves]], in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the 15th-century [[European witch hunts|witch hunter]]'s manual, the ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]''. He also wrote ''[[The Marquis de Sade: A Study in Algolagnia]]''.+'''Augustus Montague Summers''' (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an [[English author]] and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on [[witchcraft]], [[vampire]]s, and [[werewolf|werewolves]], in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the 15th-century [[European witch hunts|witch hunter]]'s manual, the ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]''. He also wrote "[[The Marquis de Sade: A Study in Algolagnia]]".
 + 
 +==Early life==
 + 
 +Montague Summers was the youngest of the seven children of Augustus William Summers, a rich banker and [[justice of the peace]] in [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]], Bristol. Summers was educated at [[Clifton College]] before studying theology at [[Trinity College, Oxford]] with the intention of becoming a priest in the [[Church of England]]. In 1905 he received a [[British undergraduate degree classification|fourth-class]] Bachelor of Arts degree. He then continued his religious training at [[Lichfield Theological College]].
 + 
 +Summers was ordained as [[deacon]] in 1908 and worked as a curate in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] and [[Bitton]], in [[Greater Bristol]]. He never proceeded to higher orders, however, probably because of rumours of his interest in [[Satanism]] and accusations of sexual impropriety with young boys, for which he was tried and acquitted. Summers' first book, ''[[Antinous]] and Other Poems'', published in 1907, was dedicated to the subject of [[pederasty]].
 + 
 +Summers also joined the growing ranks of English men of letters interested in [[Middle Ages|medievalism]], [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]], and the [[occult]]. In 1909 he converted to Catholicism and shortly thereafter he began presenting himself as a Catholic priest and styling himself the "'''Reverend Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague Summers'''", even though he was never a member of any Catholic [[religious order|order]] or [[diocese]]. Whether he was ever actually [[Holy Orders|ordained]] as a priest is disputed.
 + 
 +==Literary scholarship==
 + 
 +Summers worked for several years as an English and Latin teacher at various schools, including [[Brockley County School]] in south-east London, before adopting writing as his full-time employment. He was interested in the theatre of the seventeenth century, particularly that of the [[English Restoration]], and edited the plays of [[Aphra Behn]], [[John Dryden]], [[William Congreve (playwright)|William Congreve]], among others. He was one of the founding members of The Phoenix, a society that performed those neglected works, and was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 1916.
 + 
 +Montague Summers also produced important studies of the [[Gothic fiction]] genre. He edited three collections of Gothic horror short stories, as well as an incomplete edition of two of the seven obscure Gothic novels, known as the [[Northanger Horrid Novels]], that [[Jane Austen]] mentioned in her Gothic parody novel ''[[Northanger Abbey]]''. He was instrumental in rediscovering those lost works, which some had supposed were inventions of Jane Austen herself. He also published biographies of writers Jane Austen and [[Ann Radcliffe]].
 + 
 +Summers compiled three anthologies of supernatural stories, ''[[The Supernatural Omnibus]]'', ''[[The Grimoire and other Supernatural Stories]]'', and ''[[Victorian Ghost Stories]]''. Summers has been described as "the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction" in the 1930s.
 + 
 +==The occult==
 + 
 +Summers' career as an ostensibly Catholic clergyman was highly unusual. Although he wrote works of [[hagiography]] on [[Catherine of Siena]] and [[Anthony Maria Zaccaria]], his primary religious interest was in the subject of the [[occult]]. While [[Aleister Crowley]], with whom he was acquainted, adopted the persona of a modern-day witch, Summers played the part of the learned Catholic witch-hunter. In the introduction to his book on ''[[The History of Witchcraft and Demonology]]'' (1926) he writes:
 + 
 +:In the following pages I have endeavoured to show the witch as she really was – an evil liver: a social pest and parasite: the devotee of a loathly and obscene creed: an adept at poisoning, blackmail, and other creeping crimes: a member of a powerful secret organisation inimical to Church and State: a blasphemer in word and deed, swaying the villagers by terror and superstition: a charlatan and a quack sometimes: a bawd: an abortionist: the dark counsellor of lewd court ladies and adulterous gallants: a minister to vice and inconceivable corruption, battening upon the filth and foulest passions of the age.
 + 
 +In 1928, he published the first English translation of [[Heinrich Kramer]]'s ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]'' ("The Hammer of Witches"), a 15th-century Latin manual on the hunting of witches. In his introduction, Summers insists that the reality of witchcraft is an essential part of Catholic doctrine and declares the ''Malleus'' an admirable and correct account of witchcraft and of the methods necessary to combat it. In fact, however, the Catholic authorities of the 15th century had condemned the ''Malleus'' on both ethical and legal grounds.
 + 
 + 
 +Montague Summers then turned to [[vampires]], producing ''The Vampire: His Kith and Kin'' (1928) and ''The Vampire in Europe'' (1929), and later to [[werewolves]] with ''The Werewolf'' (1933). Summers' work on the occult is notorious for his unusual and old-fashioned writing style, his display of erudition, and his purported belief in the reality of the subjects he treats.
 + 
 +==Other pursuits==
 + 
 +Summers cultivated his reputation for eccentricity. ''[[The Times]]'' wrote he was "in every way a 'character' and in some sort a throwback to the [[Middle Ages]]." His biographer, Father [[Brocard Sewell]] (writing under the pseudonym "Joseph Jerome"), paints the following portrait of Summers:
 + 
 +:During the year 1927, the striking and somber figure of the Reverend Montague Sommers in black soutane and cloak, with buckled shoes—a la Louis Quatorze—and shovel hat could often have been seen entering or leaving the reading room of the [[British Museum]], carrying a large black portfolio bearing on its side a white label, showing in blood-red capitals, the legend 'VAMPIRES'.
 + 
 +Despite his conservative religiosity, Summers was an active member of the [[British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology]], to which he contributed an essay on the [[Marquis de Sade]].
 + 
 +==Death==
 + 
 +Montague Summers died at his home in [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond, Surrey]] in August 1948. An autobiography ''The Galanty Show'' was published posthumously in 1980, though much is left unrevealed about his life. His grave in [[Richmond Cemetery]] was unmarked until the late 1980s, when Sandy Robertson and Edwin Pouncey organised the Summers Project to garner donations for a gravestone. It now bears his favoured phrase "tell me strange things". Summers's manservant Hector Stuart-Forbes is buried in the same plot.
 + 
==Works== ==Works==
-Among his works are:+ 
-===Poetry and Drama===+===Books on the occult===
 +*''[[The History of Witchcraft and Demonology]]'', 1926
 +*''[[The Geography of Witchcraft]]'', 1927 (reprinted {{ISBN|0-7100-7617-7}})
 +*''[[The Vampire: His Kith and Kin]]'', 1928 (reprinted by Senate in 1993 as simply ''The Vampire''; reprinted with alternate title: ''Vampires and Vampirism'' {{ISBN|0-486-43996-8}}), edited by [[John Edgar Browning]]
 +*''[[The Vampire in Europe]]'', 1929 (reprinted {{ISBN|0-517-14989-3}}) (reprinted with alternate title: ''The Vampire in Lore and Legend'' {{ISBN|0-486-41942-8}})
 +*''The Werewolf'', 1933 (reprinted with alternate title: ''The Werewolf in Lore and Legend'' {{ISBN|0-486-43090-1}})
 +*''[[A Popular History of Witchcraft]]'', 1937
 +*''[[Witchcraft and Black Magic]]'', 1946 (reprinted {{ISBN|1-55888-840-3}}, {{ISBN|0-486-41125-7}})
 +*''[[The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism]]'', 1947
 + 
 +===Poetry and drama===
*''Antinous and Other Poems'', 1907 *''Antinous and Other Poems'', 1907
*''William Henry'' (play), 1939 *''William Henry'' (play), 1939
*''Edward II'' (play), 1940 *''Edward II'' (play), 1940
-===Prose fiction=== 
-*''The Grimoire and Other Ghostly Tales'', 1936 
-*''Six Ghost Stories'', 1937 
-*''The Sins of the Fathers'', 1947 
-*''Supernatural Tales'', 1947 
-===Editions and translations=== 
-*''Works of Mrs. [[Aphra Behn]]'', 1915 
-*''Complete Works of [[William Congreve (playwright)|Congreve]]'', 1923  
-*''Complete Works of [[William Wycherley|Wycherley]]'', 1924 
-*''[[The Castle of Otranto]]'' by [[Horace Walpole]], 1924 
-*''The Complete Works of [[Thomas Shadwell]]'', 1927 
-*''Covent Garden Drollery'', 1927 
-*''Horrid Mysteries'' by the Marquis de Grosse 1927 (part of an incomplete edition of the ''[[Northanger Horrid Novels]]''). 
-*''[[The Necromancer of the Black Forest]]'' by 'Ludwig Flammenberg' 1927 (part of an incomplete edition of the 'Northanger Horrid Novels'). 
-*''[[Sinistrari]]'s [[Demoniality]]'', [[1927]] 
-*''[[Malleus Maleficarum|The Malleus Maleficarum]]'' of [[Heinrich Kramer]] and [[Jacob Sprenger]], 1928 
-*''[[The Discovery of Witches]]'', 1928 by [[Matthew Hopkins]] (reprinted ISBN 0-404-18416-2) 
-*''[[The Compendium Maleficarum]]'' by [[Francesco Maria Guazzo]], translated by E.A. Ashwin, 1929 
-*''[[Daemonolatreiae libri tres|Demonolatry]]'' by [[Nicolas Remy]], translated by E.A. Ashwin, 1930 
-*''[[The Supernatural Omnibus]]'', 1931 (reprinted ISBN 0-88356-037-2) 
-*''Victorian Ghost Stories'', 1936 
-*''The Complete Works of Otway'', 1936 
-===The occult===+===Fiction anthologies edited by Summers===
-*''[[The History of Witchcraft]]'', 1926+*''The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories'', 1936
-*''[[The Geography of Witchcraft]]'', 1927 (reprinted ISBN 0-7100-7617-7)+*''The Supernatural Omnibus'', 1947
-*''[[The Vampire: His Kith and Kin]]'', 1928 (reprinted with alternate title: ''Vampires and Vampirism'' ISBN 0-486-43996-8)+
-*''[[The Vampire in Europe]]'', 1929 (reprinted ISBN 0-517-14989-3) (reprinted with alternate title: ''The Vampire in Lore and Legend'' ISBN 0-486-41942-8)+
-*''[[The Werewolf]]'', 1933 (reprinted with alternate title: ''The Werewolf in Lore and Legend'' ISBN 0-486-43090-1)+
-*''[[A Popular History of Witchcraft]]'', 1937 +
-*''[[Witchcraft and Black Magic]]'', 1946 (reprinted ISBN 1-55888-840-3, ISBN 0-486-41125-7)+
-*''[[The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism]]'', 1947.+
-===Other works===+===Other books===
*''St. Catherine of Siena'', 1903 *''St. Catherine of Siena'', 1903
*''[[Lourdes]]'', 1904 *''[[Lourdes]]'', 1904
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*''Architecture and the Gothic Novel'', 1931 *''Architecture and the Gothic Novel'', 1931
*''The Restoration Theatre'', 1934 *''The Restoration Theatre'', 1934
-*''[[Essays in Petto]]'' 1933+*''Essays in Petto'' 1933
*''The Playhouse of Pepys'', 1935 *''The Playhouse of Pepys'', 1935
*''[[The Gothic Quest: a History of the Gothic Novel]]'' 1938 *''[[The Gothic Quest: a History of the Gothic Novel]]'' 1938
-*''A Gothic Bibliography'' 1940+*''A Gothic Bibliography'' 1941 (copyright 1940)
 + 
 +*''Six Ghost Stories'' (1938, not published until October 2019)
 + 
 +*''The Bride of Christ and other fictions'' (unpublished material, forthcoming 2019)
 + 
 +===As editor or translator===
 +*''Works of Mrs. [[Aphra Behn]]'', 1915
 +*''Complete Works of [[William Congreve (playwright)|Congreve]]'', 1923
 +*''Complete Works of [[William Wycherley|Wycherley]]'', 1924
 +*''[[The Castle of Otranto]]'' by [[Horace Walpole]], 1924
 +*''The Complete Works of [[Thomas Shadwell]]'', 1927
 +*''Covent Garden Drollery'', 1927
 +*''Horrid Mysteries'' by the Marquis de Grosse 1927 (part of an incomplete edition of the ''[[Northanger Horrid Novels]]'').
 +*''[[The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest]]'' by 'Ludwig Flammenberg' 1927 (part of an incomplete edition of the 'Northanger Horrid Novels').
 +*''Demoniality'' by [[Ludovico Maria Sinistrari]], 1927
 +*''[[Malleus Maleficarum|The Malleus Maleficarum]]'' of [[Heinrich Kramer]] and [[Jacob Sprenger]], 1928
 +*''[[The Discovery of Witches]]'', 1928 by [[Matthew Hopkins]] (reprinted {{ISBN|0-404-18416-2}})
 +*''[[Compendium Maleficarum]]'' by [[Francesco Maria Guazzo]], translated by E.A. Ashwin, 1929
 +*''[[Daemonolatreiae libri tres|Demonolatry]]'' by [[Nicolas Remy]], translated by E.A. Ashwin, 1930
 +*''[[The Supernatural Omnibus]]'', 1931 (reprinted {{ISBN|0-88356-037-2}})
 +*''Victorian Ghost Stories'', 1936
 +*''The Poems of [[Richard Barnfield]]'', 1936
 +*''The Complete Works of [[Thomas Otway]]'', 1936
 + 
 +==Bibliography==
 +*d'Arch Smith,Timothy."Montague Summers,A Bibliography".London:Nicholas Vane,1964.(Revised edition 1983,Aquarian Press).
 +*Jerome, Joseph. ''Montague Summers: A Memoir''. London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1965 (edition limited to 750 copies).
 +*Frank, Frederick S. ''Montague Summers: A Bibliographical Portrait''. London: The Scarecrow Press. 1988 {{ISBN|0-8108-2136-2}}=
 +==Pages linking in==
 +[[2019 in public domain]], [[Agriopas]], [[Algernon Blackwood]], [[Aphra Behn]], [[Asmodeus]], [[Black magic]], [[Black Mass]], [[British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology]], [[Brocard Sewell]], [[Brockley]], [[Catherine Crowe]], [[Catherine Cuthbertson]], [[Cecil Williamson]], [[Charles Higham (biographer)]], [[Charles Kains Jackson]], [[Chinese Ghouls and Goblins]], [[Clermont (novel)]], [[Compendium Maleficarum]], [[Croglin Grange]], [[Cyril Connolly]], [[Daemonolatreiae libri tres]], [[Dennis Wheatley]], [[Étienne Guibourg]], [[Francis Lathom]], [[Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan]], [[George Cecil Ives]], [[George Valiantine]], [[Gerald Willoughby-Meade]], [[Gothic fiction]], [[Guillaume Edelin]], [[Guillermo del Toro]], [[Hand of Glory]], [[Henry Nevil Payne]], [[History of abortion]], [[History of birth control]], [[Horrid Mysteries]], [[Illuminati in popular culture]], [[James Planché]], [[John Edgar Browning]], [[La Voisin]], [[LGBT social movements]], [[List of occult writers]], [[List of Old Cliftonians]], [[List of Trinity College, Oxford people]], [[List of University of Oxford people in religion]], [[Louviers possessions]], [[Magdalena de la Cruz]], [[Malleus Maleficarum]], [[Manfred, King of Sicily]], [[Marcelline Pauper]], [[Margaret Murray]], [[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]], [[Matthew Hopkins]], [[Michael Howard (Luciferian)]], [[Michael Sadleir]], [[Northanger Abbey]], [[Order of Chaeronea]], [[Peter Stumpp]], [[Pierre de Lancre]], [[Red hair]], [[Restoration comedy]], [[Richmond Cemetery]], [[Romani (adventurer)]], [[Saints and levitation]], [[Satanism]], [[Sisters of Charity of Nevers]], [[Spiritualism]], [[Summis desiderantes affectibus]], [[Surrealism]], [[The Castle of Otranto]], [[The Fair Jilt]], [[The Necromancers: The Best of Black Magic and Witchcraft]], [[The Orphan of the Rhine]], [[The Revenant (2009 film)]], [[The Town Fop or, Sir Timothy Tawdry]], [[The Vampyre]], [[Therese Neumann]], [[Thiess of Kaltenbrun]], [[Tiger]], [[Timeline of LGBT history in the United Kingdom]], [[Uranian poetry]], [[Vampire]], [[Vampire literature]], [[Vernon Lee]], [[Warrior Nun Areala]], [[Werecat]], [[Werewolf]], [[William Eglinton]], [[Witch trials in the early modern period]], [[Witch-cult hypothesis]], [[Witches' Sabbath]]
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Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum. He also wrote "The Marquis de Sade: A Study in Algolagnia".

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Early life

Montague Summers was the youngest of the seven children of Augustus William Summers, a rich banker and justice of the peace in Clifton, Bristol. Summers was educated at Clifton College before studying theology at Trinity College, Oxford with the intention of becoming a priest in the Church of England. In 1905 he received a fourth-class Bachelor of Arts degree. He then continued his religious training at Lichfield Theological College.

Summers was ordained as deacon in 1908 and worked as a curate in Bath and Bitton, in Greater Bristol. He never proceeded to higher orders, however, probably because of rumours of his interest in Satanism and accusations of sexual impropriety with young boys, for which he was tried and acquitted. Summers' first book, Antinous and Other Poems, published in 1907, was dedicated to the subject of pederasty.

Summers also joined the growing ranks of English men of letters interested in medievalism, Catholicism, and the occult. In 1909 he converted to Catholicism and shortly thereafter he began presenting himself as a Catholic priest and styling himself the "Reverend Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague Summers", even though he was never a member of any Catholic order or diocese. Whether he was ever actually ordained as a priest is disputed.

Literary scholarship

Summers worked for several years as an English and Latin teacher at various schools, including Brockley County School in south-east London, before adopting writing as his full-time employment. He was interested in the theatre of the seventeenth century, particularly that of the English Restoration, and edited the plays of Aphra Behn, John Dryden, William Congreve, among others. He was one of the founding members of The Phoenix, a society that performed those neglected works, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1916.

Montague Summers also produced important studies of the Gothic fiction genre. He edited three collections of Gothic horror short stories, as well as an incomplete edition of two of the seven obscure Gothic novels, known as the Northanger Horrid Novels, that Jane Austen mentioned in her Gothic parody novel Northanger Abbey. He was instrumental in rediscovering those lost works, which some had supposed were inventions of Jane Austen herself. He also published biographies of writers Jane Austen and Ann Radcliffe.

Summers compiled three anthologies of supernatural stories, The Supernatural Omnibus, The Grimoire and other Supernatural Stories, and Victorian Ghost Stories. Summers has been described as "the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction" in the 1930s.

The occult

Summers' career as an ostensibly Catholic clergyman was highly unusual. Although he wrote works of hagiography on Catherine of Siena and Anthony Maria Zaccaria, his primary religious interest was in the subject of the occult. While Aleister Crowley, with whom he was acquainted, adopted the persona of a modern-day witch, Summers played the part of the learned Catholic witch-hunter. In the introduction to his book on The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (1926) he writes:

In the following pages I have endeavoured to show the witch as she really was – an evil liver: a social pest and parasite: the devotee of a loathly and obscene creed: an adept at poisoning, blackmail, and other creeping crimes: a member of a powerful secret organisation inimical to Church and State: a blasphemer in word and deed, swaying the villagers by terror and superstition: a charlatan and a quack sometimes: a bawd: an abortionist: the dark counsellor of lewd court ladies and adulterous gallants: a minister to vice and inconceivable corruption, battening upon the filth and foulest passions of the age.

In 1928, he published the first English translation of Heinrich Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches"), a 15th-century Latin manual on the hunting of witches. In his introduction, Summers insists that the reality of witchcraft is an essential part of Catholic doctrine and declares the Malleus an admirable and correct account of witchcraft and of the methods necessary to combat it. In fact, however, the Catholic authorities of the 15th century had condemned the Malleus on both ethical and legal grounds.


Montague Summers then turned to vampires, producing The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (1928) and The Vampire in Europe (1929), and later to werewolves with The Werewolf (1933). Summers' work on the occult is notorious for his unusual and old-fashioned writing style, his display of erudition, and his purported belief in the reality of the subjects he treats.

Other pursuits

Summers cultivated his reputation for eccentricity. The Times wrote he was "in every way a 'character' and in some sort a throwback to the Middle Ages." His biographer, Father Brocard Sewell (writing under the pseudonym "Joseph Jerome"), paints the following portrait of Summers:

During the year 1927, the striking and somber figure of the Reverend Montague Sommers in black soutane and cloak, with buckled shoes—a la Louis Quatorze—and shovel hat could often have been seen entering or leaving the reading room of the British Museum, carrying a large black portfolio bearing on its side a white label, showing in blood-red capitals, the legend 'VAMPIRES'.

Despite his conservative religiosity, Summers was an active member of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, to which he contributed an essay on the Marquis de Sade.

Death

Montague Summers died at his home in Richmond, Surrey in August 1948. An autobiography The Galanty Show was published posthumously in 1980, though much is left unrevealed about his life. His grave in Richmond Cemetery was unmarked until the late 1980s, when Sandy Robertson and Edwin Pouncey organised the Summers Project to garner donations for a gravestone. It now bears his favoured phrase "tell me strange things". Summers's manservant Hector Stuart-Forbes is buried in the same plot.

Works

Books on the occult

Poetry and drama

  • Antinous and Other Poems, 1907
  • William Henry (play), 1939
  • Edward II (play), 1940

Fiction anthologies edited by Summers

  • The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories, 1936
  • The Supernatural Omnibus, 1947

Other books

  • Six Ghost Stories (1938, not published until October 2019)
  • The Bride of Christ and other fictions (unpublished material, forthcoming 2019)

As editor or translator

Bibliography

  • d'Arch Smith,Timothy."Montague Summers,A Bibliography".London:Nicholas Vane,1964.(Revised edition 1983,Aquarian Press).
  • Jerome, Joseph. Montague Summers: A Memoir. London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1965 (edition limited to 750 copies).
  • Frank, Frederick S. Montague Summers: A Bibliographical Portrait. London: The Scarecrow Press. 1988 Template:ISBN=

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