Title: A.E. WAITE: MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS
Author: R.A. Gilbert
Publisher: Crucible
City: Wellingborough, EnglandYear: 1987 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pagination: 208Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: First
Edition hardcover. Light grey boards with gilt lettering on
spine. B/w frontis portrait and illustrations. Appendix, notes,
bibliography and index. SIGNED by the author, R.A. Gilbert
on the title page. Strong and solid binding and boards, and no interior writing. Dust jacket is in excellent condition, and remains uncut. A.E. Waite (1857-1942) was one of the leading figures to
emerge from the Victorian occult revival. Amongst his accomplishments were the
introduction of the works of Eliphas Levi to the English-speaking world, the
first English publication of many of the classics of alchemy, and in 1903, the
resurrection of the Golden Dawn. The author, Dr. R.A. Gilbert, is widely
acknowledged as the leading expert on Waite, and has written his bibliography
as well as this biography.
