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Newsletter No. 19 of alchemy and hermetic booksBack to mailing list page .* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ALCHEMY AND HERMETIC MAILING LIST NEWSLETTER No 19 - June 1998 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I am pleased to be able to announce that I am now making part of my collection of handcoloured alchemical emblems available for sale through the alchemy web bookstore. A number of people have been asking me about this for some time, so I have spent the past months preparing these for sale, mounting them, and setting up the web pages to display them. Over the past ten years or so I have been making handcoloured emblems by painting with watercolours copies of woodcuts and engravings from printed books and some manuscript drawings. In colouring these I made use of my intensive study of the original coloured manuscripts of the 15th to 18th centuries, which have been the main focus of my research over the past years. I have often found that by contemplating and meditating on these handcoloured images one can resonate with and enter into the complex symbolic world of alchemy. Originally these were made for my own interest, though I have sold or given some of these to friends and colleagues over the years, but now I am willing to make these more widely available through the alchemy web bookshop. I have now provided these unique items with mitred mounts, and each image is, of course, signed by myself on the painting and also on the mount. There are four different mount sizes. Initially there are 70 emblems which can be seen in my galleries http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/alchemy/amcldraw.html If a particular 'buy' button is inactive this will indicate that the item has been sold. I still have some further items from my collection which will be added to these galleries over the next few months. As the packing costs and air mail postage are significant factors in pricing these items I cannot guarantee to hold the prices at the current levels. * * * * * Version 3 of the Alchemy Web site on CD-Rom is now available. Apart from including all the material added since January, and incorporating the new toolbar for easier navigation through the complexities of the site, I have also included an excellent search engine (Windows only) which runs off the CD-Rom and has indexed every word on the web site. This makes searching very fast and more comprehensive than the online Excite search engine. This new version 3 can now be purchased online using your credit card from the alchemy web bookshop :- http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/alchemy/index.html * * * * * With my best wishes, Adam McLean |