The Astrolite: Articles on Practical Astrology

Astrolite, The^[1]: Articles on Practical Astrology

Full title:

• The Astrolite: Articles on Practical Astrology – The Volume of Twelve Numbers Constituting a Supplementary Text Book on the Science of Astrology (cover title, Nos. 2-3)
• The Astrolite: Articles on Practical Astrology – A Monthly Magazine for Astrologers (cover title, Nos. 4-12)
• The Astrolite: A Monthly Magazine of Astrology (inner title, No. 2 and Nos. 4-12)
• The Astrolite: Articles on Practical Astrology (bound compilation, front board only)

Editor:

• Weston, Prof. L. H. (all issues)

Publication credits:

• L. H. Weston, Portland, Oregon (all issues)

Holdings:

• Number 1: The Fixed Stars in Astrology. 20 pp
• Number 2: The Animodar of the Tetrabiblos – Complete Article. Printed chart overlay laid-in loose. [Front cover backed with publication details] + [2-panel fold-out chart (‘The Mechanical Aspectarian’)] + [2] + 20 + [rear cover featuring advertisement]
• Number 3: Terminus Vitae of the Presidents. [Front cover backed with publication details] + 20 + [rear cover backed with advertisements]
• Number 4: April 1908. [Front cover backed with publication details] + 16 + [2 pages of advertisements] + [rear cover backed with advertisements]
• Number 5: May 1908. [Front cover] + [pp. 19-34] + [3 pages of advertisements] + [rear cover]
• Number 6: June 1908. [Front cover] + [pp. 35-50] + [3 pages of advertisements] + [rear cover]
• Number 7: July 1908. [Front cover] + [pp. 51-68] + [3 pages of advertisements] + [rear cover]
• Number 8: August 1908. [Front cover] + [pp. 69-84] + [rear cover]
• Number 9: September 1908. [Front cover] + [pp. 85-100] + [rear cover featuring advertisements]
• Number 10: October 1908. [Front cover] + [pp. 101-116] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• Number 11: November 1908. [Front cover] + [pp. 117-132] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• Number 12: December 1908. (1 cm horizontal tear to inner margins of covers, with lesser effects to pages within.) [Front cover] + [pp. 132-147] + [rear cover featuring advertisements]

Binding format and presentation notes:

• Issues from 2 to 12 held primarily as the original separate small-format pamphlets in their original covers, internally bound by subsurface staples through inner margins. Also held secondarily as part of a bound compilation without the original covers (see below).
• Issue 1 held as part of a bound compendium of all twelve issues without their original covers, as issued for sale in a limited edition by the publisher at the end of 1908 and sold for a short time thereafter. Small-format cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine hinges; wear to outer corners of boards) with (faded) gilt titling to front board. [1] (= table of contents) + 20 + 20 + 20 + 16 + [pp. 19-50] + [pp. 51-68] + [pp. 69-132 (1)] + [pp. 132 (2) – 147]. Two-panel folding fixed-star map laid in at front

 

[1] NB: No. 1, on the Fixed Stars in Astrology, was also subsequently reissued as a dedicated separate publication of the same name which is found in this collection thus (see books section)