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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
John Dee (1527-1608), popularly remembered as an alchemist and
spiritualist, was an enthusiastic scholar specialising in
mathematics and astronomy, and collected manuscripts, early printed
books and scientific instruments. Despite meeting Elizabeth I in
person, he never progressed in the Church, and died in poverty. The
four selections from his writings reissued here show Dee
painstakingly listing his books before a journey to Europe, and
appealing to the Queen for help when, after a catastrophic burglary
at his library and the destruction of his laboratory equipment, his
pay also failed to arrive. J. O. Halliwell (1842) reproduces the
full text of Dee's diaries with an index; James Crossley (1851)
transcribes Dee's appeals to the Queen; Bailey's book (1880), of
which only 20 copies were printed, contains a full commentary on
the last five years of the diaries; and M. R. James (1920)
researches the fate of Dee's books over the centuries.
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