Ellic Howe

Ellic Paul Howe (20 September 1910–28 September 1991) was a British author who wrote extensively on occultism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as well as on typography and military history.

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 Horst 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)
* "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 ... events, transactions and proceedings" (1958)
* "Harry Kweller and the Harkwell Press;: A Fragment of Biography" (1960)