2725 – Palmistry Book and Leaflet
- Physical description:
- An early 20th century book on palm-reading, "Cheiro's Language of the Hand", hardcover (ivory-coloured cloth). It features illustrations of hand-prints of many celebrities of the time. With leaflet inside advertising a palm reader, Madame Brenda.
- Museum classification:
- Fortune-Telling and Divination
- Size:
- 250 x 190 x 30
- Information:
Cheiro (William John Warner, who also used the name Count Louis Hamon) was a charismatic and extremely famous palm-reader of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, who had many celebrities as his clients. This book was privately published by him in the USA in 1894, then taken up by commercial publishers in both the USA and UK. This is the 22nd edition, published in London by Herbert Jenkins Limited.
The book has some handwritten notes on a sheet of paper slipped inside it, and also a leaflet advertising "Madame Brenda: Scientific Palmiste". (The leaflet is now packaged separately.)- Resource:
- Book
- Materials:
- Paper, card, cloth
Cheiro (William John Warner, who also used the name Count Louis Hamon) was a charismatic and extremely famous palm-reader of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, who had many celebrities as his clients. This book was privately published by him in the USA in 1894, then taken up by commercial publishers in both the USA and UK. This is the 22nd edition, published in London by Herbert Jenkins Limited.
The book has some handwritten notes on a sheet of paper slipped inside it, and also a leaflet advertising "Madame Brenda: Scientific Palmiste". (The leaflet is now packaged separately.)