Raphael ‘Raphael’s Mundane Astrology or the Effects of the Planets and Signs upon the Nations and Countries of the World’ W. Foulsham & Co., 4, Pilgrim Street, Ludgate Hill, E.C., London, 1910[1].
Original cloth. [4] + [pp. 5-80] + [6 pages of advertisements[2]]
[1] The original edition of this volume, as distinguished by the combination of the printed year on the title page and the publisher’s correct address at that date
[2] There should be eight, but on this copy the final leaf has been torn out leaving a visible stub and some residual print-bleed onto the following free endpaper
About this Book Scan
Raphael was a pseudonym adopted by successive editors of Raphael’s Almanac (originally Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger) from its inception in 1926 onwards.
Only two of the several Raphaels branched out into publishing multiple books under the same pseudonym. The first was the original Raphael, Robert Cross Smith. The second was the longest-standing holder of the position, Robert Thomas Cross, whose new book publications spanned from 1877 to the early 1910s; and many of them were still being reprinted long after his death.
One of the last books penned by R. T. Cross was Raphael’s Mundane Astrology, which was first published in 1910. It was reprinted by the original publisher, Foulsham, several times in undated editions spanning right through to the 1940s.
Our scan offered here is taken from our original printing of the 1910 true first edition, which is distinguished by the date 1910 appearing in print on the title page and the correct publisher address of 4, Pilgrim Street being displayed.