Daniel Pickering Walker (Reprinted from the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol LXXII (1986))

12pp academic offprint from the Journal of the British Academy, in plain light card covers, stapled.  Includes full page monochrome portrait plate illustration.  8vo.  Covers are a little rubbed and soiled, with some damp staining towards the lower edge which also affects the frontispiece else internally neat, clean bright and tight. A review of the life, works and death of Daniel Pickering Walker, the English historian noted for his studies on the occult in Western History and works on musical humanism.  His best known publication is Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella (1958) which has been described as one of the classics of Renaissance studies.