Katherine Taylor Craig. The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1918.
First edition. (210 x 140) pp. ix, [3], 380. Bound in blue publisher's cloth, title in gilt. No dust jacket. Extremities show signs of rubbing; a small tear at the top end band repaired. The outer edges of the text block and ront and rear end papers somewhat foxed. Interior pages show an occational spot of marginal foxing. Faint damp staints are present in the upper margins. Bookseller's ticket on front paste down. Overall GOOD condition.
Katherin Taylor Craig was a well-known American occultist. Her book on dreams is a wealth of esoteric lore with discussions on ancient divination and modern dream analysis, Charcot, Jung, Freud, reincarnation versus inherited memory, mysticism, clairvoyance, spiritual body, hypnotic sleep, avatars, dreams of childhood, drugs and narcotics, symbolism, mythology, etc. Chapter XII (p. 268-365) discusses the interpretation of dreams by means of geomancy and includes extensive tables of geomantic figures. She died of influenza in 1918.