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[WRIGHT, Dudley] Elias Ashmole. Founder of the Ashmolean Museum [with] Sir Edward Kelley- 1555-1595 (Facsimile Edition, Magickal Childe)
[WRIGHT, Dudley] Elias Ashmole. Founder of the Ashmolean Museum [with] Sir Edward Kelley- 1555-1595 (Facsimile Edition, Magickal Childe)
Full title: Elias Ashmole. Founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Archaeologist, Astrologer, Historian, Rosicrucian, and Freemason [with] Sir Edward Kelley (1555-1595)
No Place [UK]: No Publisher [Chthonios Books], No Date. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 54 pages (35 devoted to Ashmole and the rest to Kelley), printed on rectos only. 2 additional pages bound in from a different volume which has some additional information on Edward Kelley. Bound in Maroon boards with gilt spine titles. Issued without dust jacket. With 2 black and white images of Edward Kelley. It is believed that this volume was produced by Chthonios Books (probably 50 copies or less) especially for Herman Slater's Magickal Childe bookstore in New York. 'Magickal Childe' is printed at base of spine. There is a Chthonios Books sticker on rear pastedown. The quality of the 'printing' isn't the best - the sheets appearing to have been xeroxed from a copy of the original edition. Despite the rather cheap production values, this remains a very uncommon volume. Some rubbing to boards, otherwise a very good copy.
This work includes short biographies of Elias Ashmole and Edward Kelley. It seems to have been assembled from two different books (different typefaces and font sizes, not to mention erratic page numbering).
This copy is from the collection of Thelemic author Robert C. Stein (1931 – 2024), who wrote "The Mystery of the Letters and The Tree of Life" and other works. Stein was a Professor Emeritus of Biology in the New York State University System, whose involvement in the study and practice of Thelema spanned three decades and travels in five continents.