Alchemy: ancient and modern : being a brief account of the alchemistic doctrines, and their relations, to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in physical science on the other hand ; together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists / by H. Stanley Redgrove.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern is a 1911 London survey of alchemical doctrines and their links to mysticism and modern physical science, written by H. Stanley Redgrove for a general readership. Its pictures are small engraved portraits of early alchemists, mostly bust-length men in period collars and dark dress against plain or draped backgrounds, offering a designer sober, period-appropriate figure studies with strong tonal contrast and oval or framed vignette layouts.
