Théories & symboles des alchimistes : le grand-oeuvre : suivi d'un essai sur la bibliographie alchimique due XIXe sìecle.
Théories & symboles des alchimistes is an 1891 alchemy study by Albert Poisson, published in Paris and scanned by Glasgow University Library, covering the Great Work and the 19th-century alchemical bibliography. Its pictures are small woodcut-style engravings: a medallion of a figure with sun and moon, an oval emblem with a figure on a serpent-tailed globe, a folding plate of allegorical scenes, and costumed figures before a furnace. A designer might take the dense hatching, emblematic medallions and astrological sun-and-moon motifs as models for vintage occult imagery.
