Wordsworth, Hertfordshire, 1996, reprint.  ISBN 1-85326-333-8.  Trade soft cover, 241 pages including Glossary and Index.  Very good; wraps show light edge and cover wear, impression on rear wrap; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; black & white illustrations.  ‘It covers the story and the nature of occultism, details the great occult figures of the past – Bacon, Bohme, Hiram, Nostradamus, Paracelsus and Swedenborg, as well as more modern practitioners such as Abellio, Crowley, Gurdjieff and Papus.  Examples of occult thought in literature from Balzac to Blake and Dennis Wheatley are given, as well as sections on Esoterism and Reality, Words, Divinations and Supports, and a useful Glossary.’ (from rear wrap)