A MIRROR OF WITCHCRAFT
Book Details + Condition: Chatto and Windus (London). First Edition, 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket. 252 pages with index at rear. Blue cloth boards with spine label. A Mirror of Witchcraft examines the thought processes during the height of witchcraft and witch persecution during the 17th and 18th centuries in Great Britain. Other topics include: Shape-Shifting and Familiar Spirits; The Fairies of the Dead; Maleficium; Charms and Counter-Charms; The White Witch; The Weather-Witch; and more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; slight darkening to edges of boards; interior is clean and free of markings save bookseller stamp on front endpaper; slight wrinkles to bottom corners of many pages (book was most likely dropped on its corner at some point). Dust jacket shows significant wear.
