Chaldean magic : its origin and development / translated from the French ; with considerable additions by the author, and notes by the editor. By François Lenormant.
Chaldean Magic by François Lenormant, translated and annotated by William Ricketts Cooper, published in London by S. Bagster and Sons in 1877, is a scholarly study of ancient Babylonian magic written for a general reader. Its pictures are head and tail-piece ornaments printed in dark bands on cream paper: scrolling foliage, palmettes, rosettes, and stylised animals arranged symmetrically within rectangular frames. A designer could draw on their interlaced acanthus scrolls and Assyrian-style motifs for borders, panels, and historical decorative work.
