Sepharial Kabalistic Astrology 1895

“Sepharial” ‘Kabalistic Astrology, or Your Fortune in Your Name [: Manual No. I[1]]’ The Astrological Publishing Association, 33, Great James Street, London, W.C. / W. Foulsham & Co., 4, Pilgrim Street, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C. / John Story, 159, Cemetery Road, Sheffield / The Occult Publishing Co., Box 2646, Boston, Mass., U.S.A, undated[2]. Old hand-inked table to the solar degrees corresponding to the dates of the year adhered to front paste-down.

Custom old plain cloth (wear to top of spine; upper outer corner of rear board and lower outer corner of front board; moderate wear to foot of spine and other outer corners; small patches of wear to outer edges of boards). (Former owner’s green-inked underlining of one word to p. 24.) [3] + [pp. iv-vi] + 73 + [1 page of advertisements]

[1] The first in a planned series of publications, but to the best of my knowledge, the only one to appear. The ‘Manual’ theme would six years later be used by Alan Leo at the launch of his own series of short books with “Everybody’s Astrology”, q. v.

[2] Library records show 1895

 

About this Book Scan

Carefully reproduced in full colour from our original printing of the 1895 first edition.

Walter Gorn Old, a.k.a. Sepharial, was one of the leading British astrologers and esotericists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ‘Kabalistic Astrology, or Your Fortune in Your Name’ was one of his first significant books, and this was the first of several editions. Later revised editions, which reversed the order of the elements of the title, continued to be in print well into the early 20th century.