LIVES OF ALCHEMYSTICAL PHILOSOPHERS - A.E. WAITE, 1st 1888 - HERMETIC ALCHEMY

LIVES OF ALCHEMYSTICAL PHILOSOPHERS: BASED ON MATERIALS COLLECTED IN 1815 AND SUPPLEMENTED BY RECENT RESEARCHES WITH A PHILOSOPHICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF THE MAGNUM OPUS, OR GREAT WORK OF ALCHEMICAL RE-CONSTRUCTION, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SPIRITUAL CHEMISTRY  Book Details + Condition: George Redway (London). First Edition, 1888. Publishers original brown cloth, with gilt title to spine. 315 pages, followed by a Catalogue of Hermetic and Alchemy Books from George Redway. This is a Gilbert variant edition as the covers have no line embossing. The original edition of LIVES OF ALCHEMYSTICAL PHILOSOPHERS was published anonymously [Francis Barrett attrib] in 1815, and its author remains unknown. Waite claims in his Preface that his edition is “practically a new work under an old title.” A.E. Waite (1857-1942) was an American-born writer on occult subjects, member of the Theosophical Society, Rosicruciana in Anglia and longtime member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, befor