Ellic Howe
Encyclopedia
Ellic Paul Howe was a British
author who wrote extensively on occultism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
as well as on typography
and military history
.
United Kingdom
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author who wrote extensively on occultism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a magical order active in Great Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which practiced theurgy and spiritual development...
as well as on typography
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
and military history
Military history
Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
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Books on occultism
- Urania’s Children: the strange world of the astrologers (1967)
- Astrology: a recent history including the untold story of its role in World War II (1968)
- Astrology and psychological warfare during World War II (1972)
- Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order, 1887-1923 (1978)
- Alchemist of the Golden Dawn: The Letters of the Reverend W. A. Ayton to F. L. Gardner and Others, 1886-1905 (Roots of the Golden Dawn Series) edited by Ellic Howe (1985)
- Merlin Peregrinus: Vom Untergrund des Abendlandes (with Horst Möller), Würzburg 1986
- Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885 (Golden Dawn Studies Series ; No 12) (with Darcy Kuntz) (1997)
Books on military history
- The Black Game: British Subversive Operations Against the Germans During the Second World War (1982)
Books on typography and bookmaking
- Newspaper Printing in the Nineteenth century (1943)
- London Bookbinders: Masters and Men, 1780-1840 (1946)
- The London Compositor: Documents Relating to Wages, Working Conditions and Customs of the London Printing Trade, 1785-1900 (1947)
- The London Society of Compositors (Re-established 1848): A Centenary history (1948)
- French Type Specimen books (1951)
- The British Federation of Master Printers, 1900-1950 (1950)
- The Society of London Bookbinders, 1780-1951 (British trade union history collection) (1952)
- The Typecasters (The Monotype recorder) (1957)
- The Sales Conference: The Second of Richardsons' Newcastle Chapbooks, telling how the chairman and the chief chymist invented a bronze blue ink which tasted ... events, transactions and proceedings (1958)
- Harry Kweller and the Harkwell Press;: A Fragment of Biography (1960)