The Chemical Wedding: by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae in a New Version

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Crowley is now a featured columnist for Harper's, alternates the front column with Rebecca Solnit.
Beautiful, weird book, perfect for point-of-purchase stack for presents.
New edition of a classic with high title recognition but not well-read.
New introduction and notes by John Crowley.
Illustrated throughout.
Designed by Jacob MacMurray.

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Theo Fadel: Since illustratingThe Chemical WeddingTheo Fadelhas discovered she is the eleventh great grandniece of Robert Fludd who defended the Rosy Cross manuscripts in 1616. He mentions building his own wooden robots andother thingsimpossible by"mere mathematics without the co-operation of natural magic." Theo lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts with her spouse Ruth and four cats in a charmingly old house that stands by naturalmagic. A native Charlottean and enthusiastic somnambulist, she grew up within a half mile of PTL's broadcast studio and Billy Graham's mother, watchingStar TrekandBatmanin a Peter Max bathrobe. When science sacrificed the moon program she turned toDungeons & Dragons.She has a BA in Archeology from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. She studied drawing, sculpture and painting at the Art Students League, NYC while working in an old German cabinet shop. Her first day there an aged Austrian said "One hundred years and you're the first woman we've seen." Currently her studio is in Easthampton, her website istheofadel.comand she's been in Massachusetts less than a hundred years. This is the first book she has illustrated.