A LEXICON OF ALCHEMY

First obtainable edition. Limited edition. Publisher's original black cloth with bronze titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A superb fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and titles bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£15 net to the front flap). Scarce.

Printed in a limited edition of 250 copies. Ruland the Elder's 'Lexicon of Alchemy' was posthumously published in Latin in 1612. At the request of Lord Stafford, it was translated by A. E. Waite resulting in a privately printed edition of just 6 copies in 1893. This Watkins publication is therefore the first published edition.