Ellic Paul Howe (20 September 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a British astrologer and writer on occultism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as well as on typography and military history.[1] During World War II he worked for Britain's Political Warfare Executive on psychological warfare and forgery techniques under the name 'Armin Hull'.[2]
Partial bibliography
Books on occultism
- Urania’s Children: the strange world of the astrologers (1967)
- Astrology: a recent history including the untold story of its role in World War II (1968)
- Astrology and psychological warfare during World War II (1972)
- Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order, 1887-1923 (1978)
- Alchemist of the Golden Dawn: The Letters of the Reverend W. A. Ayton to F. L. Gardner and Others, 1886-1905 (Roots of the Golden Dawn Series) edited by Ellic Howe (1985)
- Merlin Peregrinus: Vom Untergrund des Abendlandes (with Helmut Möller), Würzburg 1986
- Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885 (Golden Dawn Studies Series; No 12) (with Darcy Kuntz) (1997)
Books on military history
- The Black Game: British Subversive Operations Against the Germans During the Second World War (1982)
Books on typography and bookmaking
- Newspaper Printing in the Nineteenth century (1943)
- The Trade – Walter Hutchinson (1943)
- London Bookbinders: Masters and Men, 1780–1840 (1946)
- The London Compositor: Documents Relating to Wages, Working Conditions and Customs of the London Printing Trade, 1785–1900 (1947)
- The London Society of Compositors (Re-established 1848): A Centenary history (1948)
- French Type Specimen books (1951)
- The British Federation of Master Printers, 1900–1950 (1950)
- The Society of London Bookbinders, 1780–1951 (British trade union history collection) (1952)
- The Typecasters (The Monotype recorder) (1957)
- The Sales Conference: The Second of Richardsons' Newcastle Chapbooks, Telling how the Chairman and the Chief Chymist Invented a Bronze Blue Ink which Tasted Like Vintage Port, and Containing a Recital of the Subsequent Events, Transactions and Proceedings (1958)
- Harry Kweller and the Harkwell Press: A Fragment of Biography (1960)
References
- ^ Howe, Ellic (1930), Papers of Ellic Howe, retrieved 21 March 2012
- ^ Friedman, Herbert A. (January 1980). "Conversations with a Master Forger". Scott's Monthly Stamp Journal. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
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