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A small notebook with a metal leaf decoration and an Ethiopian kidskin binding.

Also: for anyone dying to let me know that this is a pentacle, not a pentagram, no - it's not. 'Pentacle' does not mean 'pentagram in a circle', no matter what you've been told. It's an alternative spelling of 'pantacle', after Eliphas Lévi, and means a magic figure inscribed on an amulet or talisman (or a coin, as with the Tarot suit of pentacles or coins) with the intention of producing an effect.

The definition in Webster's, back in 1880, defines a pentacle as "a figure composed of two equilateral triangles, intersecting so as to form a SIX-pointed star, used in ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers, etc.'

There's a lot of discussion out there on the subject of Arthur Waite's 'engineering' of the term pentacle, so if you want to know more, go and Google it.

TL;DR - the book has a pentagram on the cover. In a circle. But it's not a pentacle. Or a pantacle...
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