Item #66553 The Magicians Of The Golden Dawn, A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923. Ellic HOWE, Gerald Yorke.

The Magicians Of The Golden Dawn, A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 306pp. Four page b&w plate insert at center. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, illustrated with 8 previously unpublished b&w plates, b&w line figures. Appendixes and index. The first edition of this excellent historical study of the individuals associated with the early Golden Dawn - notably W. Wynn Westcott, Anna Sprengel, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Moina Mathers, W.B. Yeats, Florence Farr, Annie Horniman, Rev. W.A. Ayton, Dr. Edward Berridge, J.W. Brodie-Innes, Frederick Leigh Gardner, Allan Bennett, Dr. R. W. Felkin, Christina M. Stoddart, Madame Horos and, of course, Aleister Crowley. Very light bruising to upper spine, page edges very slightly darkened, else a tight, bright and unmarked near Fine copy in VG + dust jacket (Dust jacket is lightly rubbed, a bit of ink offest to rear panel, price clipped. Now protected in removable mylar cover). Item #66553
ISBN: 0710073399

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