The Occult Review. July-December 1918

Shirley, Ralph (Editor)

William Rider and Sons

1918

Half-leather.  Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Gilt titles to spine. 372p.  Good with mild spine-sunning. Scuffing and wear to spine. Ends rubbed. Bookbinder sticker to second endpaper. Some pages browned. 

 6 months of The Occult Review magazine bound together. The Occult review published extensive reviews of the periodic  literature and books  of interest to Occultists. It offered a wide range of Occult topics which included telepathy, hauntings, spiritualism, hypnotism, alchemy, astrology, and other Hermetic subjects.  It’s monthly  publication ran from 1905-1951 and it’s contributors were a  veritable Who’s Who of the Occult world from that period.

Articles include: The Twelve-Fold Path of the Glorious Nine by Leo French; Mystical Substitution by Montague Summers; The Occult Lore of Bells by Bernard Fielding; and The Ethereal and the Material by R.B. Span among many others.