WITCH HUNTING AND WITCH TRIALS: THE INDICTMENTS FOR WITCHCRAFT FROM THE RECORDS OF 1373 ASSIZES HELD FOR THE HOME COURT AD 1559-1736
Book Details + Condition: Barnes & Noble (New York). First modern facsimile edition, 1971. Originally collected and edited by C. L'Estrange Ewen in 1929. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dark green boards with gilt decoration of the devil to the front, and to the spine. 345 pages, with Appendices and Index of Names. Illustrated with frontispiece of "A Witch and Her Imps". Includes a foldout of indictments and convictions. Contents include:
- Ancient Laws Against Witchcraft
- Growth of Witchcraft
- Punishments for Witchcraft
- Condition of Gaols
- Further Punishments
- Witnesses
- Confessions
- Coroners' Inquests
- Torture and Ill-Treatment
- Rise and Decline of Witchcraft Prosecution
- And much more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; light shelf wear to boards; Parker's bookplate and info to front endpapers; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket has normal age and wear, with soiling present, and a small chip to the front bottom.
