first edition Hardcover
1893 · London
by Waite, Arthur Edward
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1893. First edition, secondary binding. Hardcover. Good +. 239pp. Quarto [28 cm] Olive green cloth over boards with bevelled edges, and black ink stamped lettering and embellishments on the backstrip and front board. Black endpapers. Covers slightly cocked; cloth at the spine ends and corners a bit frayed; spine subtly darkened and the title mildly rubbed; periodic cracks to the text block. Waite's classic work on Alchemy. Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was an American-born British mystic, occultist, and prolific writer. He was received into the Golden Dawn in 1891, however he precipitated a schism in the (truncated)