Editor: Vaughan Williams, Edward

Publication credits:

V. Williams, 3, Elizabeth Place, Westminster Road, London

Holdings:

(Undated^[1] compendium with continuous pagination.)

Binding format and presentation notes:

With separate title page to [p. 229]: Vaughan Williams, Edward, Esq., Professor of Astro-Medical Botany and the Siderial Art; Editor of the “Astrologer’s Magazine,” for 1857-8; and the “Celestial Messenger Almanack” – Successor to T. Oxley, Esq[.] ‘A Short Treatise for the Use of the Zodiacal Belt Planispheres: Or, New Calculating Instruments; Being a Conplete Key to the Performing of Every Problem in Genethliacal Astrology, By Measurement Only, Instead of the Hitherto Abstruse Mathematical Calculations’ London, 1858.
Old half-leather vol., rebacked with modern leather, with paper-covered boards (scuffed and edgeworn). [2] + [pp. 3-32] + [single-sided illustration) + [pp. 35-116] + [p. 11 (2)] + [pp. 118-122] + [6] + [pp. 129-140] + [2] + [pp. 143-9] + [1] + [pp. 151-6] + [4] + [pp. 157-179] + [2] + [pp. 182-4] + [4] + [pp. 185-212] + [4] + [pp. 213-228] + [1 leaf] + [8] + [pp. 239-240] + [4] + [pp. 241-265] + [2] + [p. 268] + [4]

[1] The present volume is a slightly later compilation of a periodical published erratically by the author in what can reasonably be presumed to have been a very small circulation. Most internal contents suggest 1858, though one letter printed is dated 1850. An advertisement at the back of Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1858 indicates that the magazine commenced publishing as a monthly on September 1st, 1857. It would seem probable from the available evidence that it ran only until some time in 1858 before ending, whereupon this compilation was produced for continuing sale.

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the bound compendium as published in 1858.

Edward Vaughan Williams was a junior associate of prominent mid-19th century British astrologer Thomas Oxley, and launched his own magazine in 1857. It ran only a short time into the following year but gives interesting historical insights into the astrological thinking of a relatively quiet period for British astrology. A bound compendium volume without the original issue covers was sold in 1858, and this is our source for this scan file.