Leo, Bessie (Murray, Leslie) ‘The Romance of the Stars[:] Being a series of Astrological Stories’ “Modern Astrology” Office, 39, 40, 41, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C. / The Trade Supplied by L. N. Fowler & Co., 7, Imperial Arcade, E.C., London, 1914.

Cloth (wear to extremities of spine, down front hinge, and to outer corners of boards; sun-bleaching to front board, spine, and upper periphery of rear board; front board very slightly bowed). [1] + [1 page of advertisements] + [Frontis.] + [3] + [2] + [pp. 3-16] + [plate] + [pp. 17-32] + [plate] + [pp. 33-42] + [2] + [pp. 45-80] + [2] + [pp. 83-90] + [2] + pp. 93-104] + [2] + [pp. 107-118] + [2] + [pp. 121-130] + [2] + [pp. 133-144] + [plate] + [pp. 145-150] + [2] + [pp. 153-8] + [2] + [pp. 161-6] + [2] + [pp. 169-176] + [plate] + [pp. 177-193] + [3] + [pp. 197-201] + [pp. 202-5 of advertisements]

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the 1914 first edition.

The Romance of the Stars was an anthology of symbolic fiction by Bessie Leo, the wife of leading early 20th century British astrologer Alan Leo, who was herself an accomplished theosophical astrological thinker. The component stories were designed to illustrate astrological principles. Several of them are prefixed with astrological figures representing the birth charts of their leading characters.