Bygone beliefs, being a series of excursions in the byways of thought
A 1920 London collection of essays by chemist H. Stanley Redgrove on magic, alchemy, astrology and superstition, issued by W. Rider for general readers curious about the history of occult thought. Plates reproduce line-drawn talismans, pentagrams and magic circles lettered in Hebrew and Latin, alchemical diagrams, and halftones of illuminated manuscript initials, giving designers ready-made ritual seals, sigils and geometric emblems.
