The Arts of the Alchemists.
London: Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xvi + 224 pp. Gold metallic coloured cloth boards with black title, etc. to spine. B/w illustrations. Color frontispiece & several color plates. Bibliography & index. The true UK first edition, published a year before the US printing. A well written and illustrated sympathetic overview of the history of alchemy. The author C. A Burland served 40 years in the British Museum Department of Ethnography and was the author of numerous works on related subjects. Cloth a little rubbed and darkened, edges darkened, owner's bookplate on blank facing half-title page, otherwise a tight, clean, VG+ copy in VG + dust jacket (just a hint of shelfwear, price clipped). Item #70769
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