Life and Action: The Great Work in America (Bound Vol. 1) (1910)

Various · 1910 · Indo-American Book Company · 12 pictures

Life and Action: The Great Work in America is a 1910 bound volume of metaphysical and esoteric essays compiled by various authors and issued by the Indo-American Book Company. The pictures are decorative initial letters, each a large black serif capital set over an Art Nouveau scrollwork panel with a dotted ground. A designer could take from them a model for framed drop caps that pair bold letterforms with flowing, stylised foliage borders.

9-Life and Action, Bound Volumes · Life After Death · Insanity, Cause and Cure · Fountain of Wisdom · Mother/Father in Heaven · Hero Worship · Divorce · Mark of a Master · Man's Inner World · Syncretism · Judas Iscariot · Prayer · Theosophy

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