Lives of alchemystical philosophers / To which is added a bibliography of alchemy and hermetic philosophy

LIVES
Alchemystical Philosophers
BASED ON MATERIALS COLLECTED IN 1815
AND
SUPPLEMENTED BY RECENT RESEARCHES
WITH A PHILOSOPHICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF THE MAGNUM OPUS, OR GREAT WORK OF ALCHEMICAL RE-CONSTRUCTION, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SPIRITUAL CHEMISTRY
ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
AUTHOR OF “THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS;” “THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC: A DIGEST OF THE WRITINGS OF ÉLIPHAS LÉVI,” ETC.
TO WHICH IS ADDED
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALCHEMY AND HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY
LONDON GEORGE REDWAY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1888
The foundation of this work will be found in “The Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers; with a Critical Catalogue of Books in Occult Chemistry, and a Selection of the most celebrated Treatises on the Theory and Practice of the Hermetic Art,” which was published in the year 1815 by Lackington, Allen, & Company, of Finsbury Square, London. This anonymous book has been attributed by certain collectors to Francis Barrett, author of the notorious treatise entitled “The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer;” but it may be safely affirmed that, alike in matter and treatment, it far transcends the extremely meagre capacities of that credulous amateur in occultism. It is indeed a work of much sense and unpretentious discrimination, and is now a bibliographical rarity which is highly prized by its possessors.