The Book of Talismans, Amulets, and Zodiacal Gems (Classic Reprint) Paperback – November 16, 2016

This book, it provides better insight and knowledge in talismans, amulets and zodiacal and their usefulness... I think it that reading this book would help much in your practice... It also demonstrates preparations and prayers. This book contains vital information for practitioner and beginner as well. say beginners... I see this book to be very useful material and give more details about talismans zodiacal understanding. I use it more often and i achieve results. Again, this book may require you have certain background related to this talismans etc... mentor possible if like... this will also enhance your quicker understanding... you can also read it for fun, how you you use it is up to you and what you want have out of it... make it a practice...I think this is helpful...

Easier to read than might be expected. Only drawback is that I havethe black & white kindle. so I miss a lot viewing the pictures.

good book. I suggest it for the beginner.

Very disappointing for my needs as one who deals with symbols in my art on a daily basis. I was expecting many more images and a broader selection of cultures. More than half the book is devoted to the Babylonian/Greco-Roman zodiac. Very notably absent is any discussion of pre-Christian central/western/northern Europe; the subtitle reads "From Norse runes to Chinese jade, Egyptian scarab to Irish horseshoe...," but I have yet to find ANY mention of Norse or runes in the text itself. Whoever wrote the dust jacket had evidently not read the book. It was cheap enough not to bother trying to return or re-sell it, but my library would not be any less rich without this volume.

A good book to add to my understanding of images and symbols, but I found it simplistic and overly literal.

This version of a public domain work also available for free in the Kindle store does not deserve 5 stars. The free version has some OCR mistaken words, which this version faithfully preserves uncorrected. The free version also contains: a linked table of contents, which this version eliminates; links within the text to the referenced illustrative plates, which this version has removed; and a rather comprehensive linked index, which I strongly suspect has also been 'cleaned out' in this paid edition (review based on sampling this paid version). This edition appears 'neater' at first glance, as all the print edition's page numbers (which are noted in brackets on their own lines and correspond to internal references) have also been eliminated. The male author has also had his last name removed from the title page.Bottom line, I would choose more functionality for free over a somewhat neater *appearance* for $2.99.

this is the same 1922 edition judging from the exact same OCR errors in the prefaces of all four versions available in the Kindle store today. apparently this 'publisher' lost the title page along with most of toc, the index, and the page numbers and decided a preface signed Wm. Thos. Pavitt and dated 3rd Aug 1914 was a good reason to change the edition and publication date but not to correct the author's name....

An excellent book. Very informative. If read in conjunction with book called The Complete Book of Fortune, many areas of the subjects covered are made very clear.