The Chaldean magician : an adventure in Rome, in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian
The Chaldean Magician is a German historical novel by Ernst Eckstein, translated by Mary J. Safford and published in New York by William S. Gottsberger in 1886, set in Diocletian's Rome. The pictures show a decorative tailpiece with a central roundel holding a perched eagle, flanked by pine-cone finials and leafy branches. A designer could take from it a classical ornamental vocabulary of symmetrical garlands, medallions and finials for borders or title panels.
