The Buddhist Praying Wheel. A Collection of Material Bearing upon the Symbolism of the Wheel and Circular Movements in Custom and Religious Ritual.

48 black and white line illustrations, including frontispiece with tissue-guard (foxed), viii + 303pp, additional notes, indices. Maroon cloth covered boards, a trifle sunned on the spine gilt stamped device on the upper board, lettered in gilt on the spine. Top margin of title page removed, faint scattered foxing, bookplates to front pastedown and free endpaper, still a firm and pleasing copy of the first edition. Examines the Praying Wheel, its use in various religions and symbolism. Chapter headings include: The Wheel in Indian Buddhism, The Wheel in the Brahmanic System, The Solar Origin, The Swastika, The Zoroastrian System, Japan, In Egypt, Among the Semites - Mohammedan, Among the Semites - Jewish, The Greek System, In the Christian Churches, Among the Gauls, The Teutons and the Celts, The Wheel of Fortune, The Wheel as an Amulet, The God of the Wheel, The Wheel and Thunder.