Cross died in 1917, and the family sold the property to the City of Newark in 1919.
It underwent numerous editions, the content of which often varied significantly, although generally speaking they arguably had even less to do with Albertus Magnus and more to do with the magic than the "Secrets D'Albert Le Grand." This mid-nineteenth century edition starts with chapters on the physiognomy and chiromancy, before moving to the manufacture of talismans, Parcelsian and natural magic, folk remedies and just a touch of necromancy. This edition has as the frontispiece a plate with "Sainte VпїЅronique" (Saint Veronica) holding her veil on which the image of Christ was miraculously imprinted. It does not have the plate of the "Main de Gloire" ("Hand of Glory" - corpse hand lamp) that was present in some issues of the same edition. Little seems to be known about the publishing history of these works, but it seems possible that whilst the text is identical of the issue with the reprentation of the "Hand of Glory" this edition might have been issued without that, and with the particularly pious frontispiece, in an attempt to minimise any connections with necromancy and the black arts.
This was a German magical Grimoire first published in Stuttgart in 1849, with an English translation of the Books first appeared in New York in 1880. Subsequent reprints have suffered from a number of deficits, poor editing and poor reproduction of the drawings and Hebrew lettering. Therefore a caution is given to those that intend to apply the principle of the Grimoire.
Cross died in 1917, and the family sold the property to the City of Newark in 1919. A fire eventually destroyed much of the remaining wooden structure, leaving the stone walls intact as a place where hikers, teenagers, and the occasional Satan worshippers could congregate. Those walls, eventually painted over with graffiti and picked apart for souvenirs, were knocked down in 1988 when the Newark Watershed Commission deemed the structure unsound.
