'secret teachings' subscribers edition, 1928.

among the 550 people who purchased THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES before it even went to press: The British Museum, famous author John Uri Lloyd,  The New York Public Library, Library of Scottish Rite Bodies (Valley of Los Angeles), The Henry L. Palmer Lodge No. 301, The Rosicrucian Fellowship Los Angeles Study Center, The Seattle Public Library, The Theosophical Societies (San Francisco & Seattle Lodges), The Universities of Leipzig and Washington, The Vatican Library (!!!), The Woman's Century Club, The Hollywood Co - Masonic Lodge No. 523, and the illustrator of the book himself, Mr. J. Augustus Knapp.

from the preface: ..."Through the gracious cooperation of Dr. John Henry Nash, the foremost designer of printing on the American Continent, the book appears in a unique and appropriate form, embodying the finest elements of the printer's craft...
 The pre-publication sale of this book has been without precedent in book history. The subscription list for the first edition of 550 copies was entirely closed a year before the manuscript was placed in the printer's hands."