Editor: Bailey, E. H. (all issues)

Publication credits:

C. Murrow (Jun. – Aug. 1904)
E. H. Bailey (Mar. – Jun. 1905)

Holdings:

Vol. I No. 1, June 1904. 32 + 8 pp
Vol. I No. 2, July 1904. [pp. 33-64] + [pp. 9-16]
Vol. I No. 3 (I), August 1904. [pp. 65-96] + [pp. 17-24]
Vol. I No. 3 (II)^[1], March 1905. [pp. 65-88]
Vol. I No. 4, April 1905. [pp. 89-112]
Vol. I No. 5, May 1905. [pp. 113-136]
Vol. I No. 6, June 1905. [pp. 137-160]

[1] NB: the ‘new’ Vol. I No. 3 was an abridged version of the original Vol. I No. 3 published the previous year before the death of the proprietor C. Murrow caused a hiatus in publication

About this Book Scan

E. H. Bailey was a dedicated astrological writer and researcher for his entire adult life. Although he wrote a few influential books on astrology, such as The Pre-Natal Epoch, he was best known as a long-serving editor of astrological magazines..

Bailey holds a possible world record for the longest time elapsed between the first and last distinct astrological magazine titles edited by the same editor. Destiny was his first effort in 1904-5.

It was followed by Old Moore’s Monthly Messenger, for which he had assumed fully transparent editorial duties, taking over from the pseudonymous Old Moore (believed probably to have been Sepharial in another guise) by January 1916; and although the magazine itself changed names to The British Journal of Astrology not long afterwards, Bailey continued in his role as editor right the way through until publication was ended by the outbreak of World War II after the issue for September 1939.

Finally, he produced his own self-published magazine based on the reproduction of his own typing, The Astrological Critic and Review, from 1949 onwards. It was still appearing quarterly in July 1957, just two years before his death from cancer in June 1959.

Our original set of Destiny is complete in seven issues, including the two variant issues of No. 3 that were published. All seven issues have been scanned in full colour for the file offered here.