Frontpiece from “The Devil’s Case” by Robert Williams Buchanan, 1896Source: https:
Frontpiece from “The Devil’s Case” by Robert Williams Buchanan, 1896Source: https://archive.org/details/devilscasebankho00buch“Diabolus Hominum Salvator” is a reworking of the Christogram, IHS, “Iesus Hominum Salvator ” - “Jesus saviour of men”. So, “The Devil saviour of men.”“Est Diabolus in nobis!” is a reworking of a quotation from Ovid: “Est deus in nobis: agitante calescimus illo.” - Fasti (bk. VI, 5). “There is a God within us, and we glow when he stirs us.” So, “There is a Devil within us!The biblical quote (in Greek) is from St. Paul’s second epistle to the Corinthians, 11:14: “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”The illustrators of The Devil’s Case are not credited and I have only come across one review of the book which mentions the illustrations - Reynolds’s Newspaper ended its review with the following sentence: “A serious [sic] of striking illustrations add to the interest of the book.” One of the things which strikes me about the illustrations is that they do appear rather amateurish - certainly when compared with the pictures in Buchanan’s earlier illustrated works. And the fact that none are signed by the artist leads me to wonder whether they are by Buchanan himself. At least the portrait of the devil on the front cover and the frontispiece…“Source: http://www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/html/devilscase.html -- source link
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