Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 2025

A revised and expanded edition of Elias Ashmole's 1652 Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum.

• An new expose of the introduction of Alchemy to England from Europe, covering schools of translation and initiatory chivalric orders, based upon the work of Pierre Dujols, Fulcanelli and Michela Pereira.
• An analysis of early English Alchemical verse and its likely authorship.
• Extended historical scholarship and updated biographical information.
• Improved chronological and stylistic groupings.
• The addition of several related corpus texts and extended versions of existing works.
• A digitally enhanced "Ripley" scroll to contextualise the praxis of early texts.
• Digitally restored artwork of the original plates by Robert Vaughan and John Goddard.
• A modernised glossary and correction of original errata.
• Annotations and keys to the work, by Mercuriophilus Anglicus.

The New Compound of Alchymie

A vastly expanded edition of Sir George Ripley's seminal 1471 text.

• A modern orthographic transcription.
• A new English translation of Guido di Montanor’s Scala Philosophorum, upon which the Compound is based.
• The addition of an additional early preface in verse, The Waie to Ripplies Castell.
• The addition of Sir Edward Kelley’s Exposition upon Ripley’s Compound.
• The addition of commentaries upon the gates by Eirenaeus Philalethes, derived from his Marrow, Exposition and Breviary.
• The addition of Sir Isaac Newton’s summaries and commentaries upon the twelve gates, extracted from his posthumous notes.
• Digitally restored emblems that detail the work, from the frontispiece of Eirenaeus Philalethes' Ripley Reviv'd.
• Additional commentaries by Mercuriophilus Anglicus.

Bristolian Alchimy: The Ordinall

An expanded edition of Thomas Norton's Ordinall of Alchimy (circa 1477).

• A discussion of the authorship of the text, using newly available public records.
• A modern orthographic transcription of an early version of the text, preserving original word choice and syntax while updating spellings to contemporary standards, in line with the author's wishes not to change any one syllable.
• The addition of Michael Maier’s prose summaries, taken from his 1618 Tripus Aureus.
• An abbreviated version of the work, by Sir Hugh Platt.
• Commentary by Mercuriophilis Anglicus.
• An Hermetic interpretation of the symbols of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Redcliffe, Bristol.

Angelorum Opus

A digitally restored and enhanced edition of the Angelorum Opus or Coronatio Naturae, from a currently unpublished copy.

• A preface discussing the case for a native English Alchemy, covering the Matter of Britain, Glastonbury myth, the legend of Saint Dunstan and the War of the Roses.
• A discussion of the origins of the Angelorum Opus.
• An analysis of John Dee and Sir Edward Kelley’s Alchemy and their connection to the work.
• An analysis of a corpus of related texts: Liber Dunstani, Philosophia Maturata, Manna and The Treasure of All Wells.
• Digitally restored and enhanced emblems.
• A new translation of the accompanying text.
• Keys to the work, by Mercuriophilus Anglicus.

Liber Alcahest

A compendium of commentaries by English Philosophers upon the Liquor Alcahest.

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Volume 2

A second volume of the Theatrum featuring later English Alchemical verse, according to Elias Ashmole's stated plans that didn't come to fruition.

Newton Reviv'd

A restoration of Sir Isaac Newton's Alchemy, derived from his posthumous notes and manuscript collection.

Catena Philosophorum

A compilation of Alchemy's most important foundational writings, tracing the chain of transmission from the temples of ancient Egypt to Europe; featuring the earliest extant Greco-Egyptian texts, Byzantine commentaries and Arabic works.