(THEOSOPHY / SYMBOLIST ART.) Osgood, Irene. An Idol's Passion: A Tale of the Orient. 17 tinted mystical illustrations with printed calligraphic text by Reginald Willoughby Machell. 297x220 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/4 inches, images, tipped to mounts. Folio, plates, title-page, and half-title loose as issued in publisher's pictorial grey portfolio with ties; title and mounts toned. inscribed and signed by osgood on the title-page in 1910. First edition after the limited edition of 50 and one of only 2 works by American authors illustrated by the English artist Machell, a friend and personal interior decorator of the Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky. New York & London: Transatlantic Publishing Company, 1895