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Messrs. Macmillan for a similar permission with regard to the illustration of Malay vampires, which originally appeared in Dr. W. W. Skeat’s Malay Magic.
The little cylinder delineated upon the cover of the book is a reproduction from the Revue d’Assyriologie, vol. VII, and represents a Babylonian vampire. The original is in the Louvre collections.
In festo B.M.V. del Divino Aiuto. 1928.
