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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Small 8vo 40,[1]pp, full page b/w ills. by the author, (15 x 12cm), original pale grey/ green cloth lettered dark blue with flower illus. Reginald Willoughby Machell (1854Ð1927) was a promising young artist from a prominent family in North-West England when he was introduced to Madame Blavatsky in 1886. Machell joined the Theosophical Society, abandoned his academic style and decided to devote his life to creating a didactic art aimed at illustrating BlavatskyÕs doctrines. When the Theosophical Society split after BlavatskyÕs death, Machell sided with the American faction led by William Q. Judge and later by Katherine Tingley. In 1900, the artist moved to Lomaland, TingleyÕs Theosophical colony in California, where he remained for the next 27 years of his life. He continued to paint Theosophical subjects and to write articles on the relationship between Theosophy and the arts. He also emerged as a successful wood carver and as a gifted teacher of younger Theosophical painters, who formed the so called Lomaland Art Colony. Very good. Sound clean copy.