{{Short description|British astrologer and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Ellic Paul Howe''' (20 September 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a British astrologer and writer on occultism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as well as on typography and military history.<ref>{{Citation | last = Howe | first = Ellic | title = Papers of Ellic Howe | accessdate = 2012-03-21 | year = 1930 | url = http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.9820 }}</ref> During World War II he worked for Britain's Political Warfare Executive on psychological warfare and forgery techniques under the name 'Armin Hull'.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Friedman | first = Herbert A. | title = Conversations with a Master Forger | journal = Scott's Monthly Stamp Journal | accessdate = 2012-03-21 | date = January 1980 | url = http://www.psywar.org/forger.php }}</ref>
==Partial bibliography==
===Books on occultism=== * ''Urania’s Children: the strange world of the astrologers'' (1967) * ''Astrology: a recent history including the untold story of its role in World War II'' (1968) * ''Astrology and psychological warfare during World War II'' (1972) * ''Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order, 1887-1923'' (1978) * ''Alchemist of the Golden Dawn: The Letters of the Reverend W. A. Ayton to F. L. Gardner and Others, 1886-1905 (Roots of the Golden Dawn Series) edited by Ellic Howe'' (1985) * ''Merlin Peregrinus: Vom Untergrund des Abendlandes'' (with Helmut Möller), Würzburg 1986 * ''Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885 (Golden Dawn Studies Series; No 12) (with Darcy Kuntz)'' (1997)
===Books on military history=== * ''The Black Game: British Subversive Operations Against the Germans During the Second World War'' (1982)
===Books on typography and bookmaking=== * ''Newspaper Printing in the Nineteenth century'' (1943) * ''The Trade – Walter Hutchinson'' (1943) * ''London Bookbinders: Masters and Men, 1780–1840'' (1946) * ''The London Compositor: Documents Relating to Wages, Working Conditions and Customs of the London Printing Trade, 1785–1900'' (1947) * ''The London Society of Compositors (Re-established 1848): A Centenary history'' (1948) * ''French Type Specimen books'' (1951) * ''The British Federation of Master Printers, 1900–1950'' (1950) * ''The Society of London Bookbinders, 1780–1951 (British trade union history collection)'' (1952) * ''The Typecasters (The Monotype recorder)'' (1957) * ''The Sales Conference: The Second of Richardsons' Newcastle Chapbooks, Telling how the Chairman and the Chief Chymist Invented a Bronze Blue Ink which Tasted Like Vintage Port, and Containing a Recital of the Subsequent Events, Transactions and Proceedings'' (1958) * ''Harry Kweller and the Harkwell Press: A Fragment of Biography'' (1960)
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