Ernst Lehner - Symbols, Signs and Signets

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CLASPED HANDS, EARS AND POMEGRANATE
Union, Fertility, Posterity ( Asia Minor ) from J.

CLASPED HANDS, EARS AND POMEGRANATE
Union, Fertility, Posterity ( Asia Minor ) from J.

Bryants
Analysis of Antient Mythology ( London 1807)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

WITH TRUE APPRECIATION for their gracious assistance I wish to thank my many friends and colleagues who helped make this book possible. My special thanks go to Hofrat Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven of Vienna, Mr. John Schlepkow of Hamburg, Miss Jeanne Lanty of Paris, Mr. Paul O. Althaus of Zuerich, and Mr. Paul Baratte of London for their conscientious efforts in checking material, names and dates.

Also my gratitude to Mr. Fred Liebesny of New York for making the library of my late friend, Kurt Libesny, available to me; to Mr. Mathias von Mandel of Greenwich, Connecticut, for providing me with valuable Chinese and Japanese material from his Far East collection, to Mr. Ervine Metzl of New York for his encouragement and important contribution and to Miss Ruth Goldberg of New York for her most friendly collaboration.

TITULUS (SANCTORUM... )
from an old parchment ( Westminster Abbey, London )

TO THE READER S ELF-EXPRESSION as one of mans most persistent attributes has been studied in detail by anthropologists, psychologists and historians.