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No signatures. No tears or chips to cloth. Moderate dust stains and marks to top page edges. Boards clean. Adhesive tape repair to tear along front joint of dust wrapper.; First printing. xvi, 205, [1] pages + 53 Figures on 32 plates (including frontispiece) + [2] pages advertisements. Crimson cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 138mm. Selected contents: Pythagoras and his Philosophy; Medicine and Magic; Superstitions concerning Birds; The Powder of Sympathy; The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone; The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine; Roger Bacon: An Appreciation; The Cambridge Platonists."Everything possible to be believ'd is an image of truth"- quote from William Blake on page v. ; 4to
Books: Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
Author
H. Stanley Redgrove
Title
Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
Publisher name
William Rider&Son, London
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1920
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d