Bygone beliefs, being a series of excursions in the byways of thought
Essays on magic, alchemy, numerology and astrology by British chemist H. Stanley Redgrove, published in London by William Rider in 1920 for general readers interested in occult history. Plates mix crisp line diagrams — hexagrams lettered in Hebrew, talismanic seals, pointing hands ringed by inscriptions — with wood-engraved ritual objects and halftones of medieval manuscript scenes, giving designers ready-made sigils, circular borders and symbol charts.
