The magus, or, Celestial intelligencer : being a complete system of occult philosophy : in three books containing the antient and modern practice of the cabalistic art, natural and celestial magic, &c. ... exhibiting the sciences of natural magic; alchymy, or hermetic philosophy also the nature, creation, and fall of man ... ; To which is added Biographia antiqua, or the lives of the most eminent philosophers, magi, &c. : the whole illustrated with a great variety of curious engravings, magical and cabalistical figures, &c.
Francis Barrett's compendium of occult philosophy, cabalistic art, alchemy and magic, printed in London in 1801 for readers pursuing hermetic study. The plate shown is a stipple-engraved oval portrait of the author in high collar and cravat, set on a plain page beneath a line of engraved copperplate script useful as a frontispiece model or lettering reference.
