COMPENDIUM MALEFICARUM: SHOWING THE INIQUITOUS AND EXECRABLE OPERATIONS OF WITCHES AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE, AND THE DIVINE REMEDIES BY WHICH THEY MAY BE FRUSTRATED
Book Details + Condition: John Rodker (London, UK). First, Limited and Hand-Numbered Edition, 1929. This particular copy is numbered 699 out of a limited printing of 1275. With Introductions, Bibliography and Notes by Montague Summers. Hardcover measuring 10.25" x 8", of First Issue with black parchment spine and deep red cloth boards. Gilt front board stamping "Of the Sign of the Holy Cross". 207 pages. Illustrated with "40 Curious Woodcuts".
COMPENDIUM MALEFICARUM was a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan in 1608. It examines witches' pacts with the devil, and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons. It also contains Guazzo's classification of demons, based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. In very good condition, with firm binding; light shelf wear to boards, with a slight bump to bottom corner; toning to endpapers; interior is clean and free of markings. The majority of the pages remain UNCUT - and thus unread.
