THE WITCHCRAFT WORLD
Book Details + Condition: Taplinger Publishing Co (New York). First US Edition, 1972. Hardcover. Large octavo. 408 pages. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Edited by Barbara Rosen. Includes black-and-white illustrations, bibliography and indexes. The editor presents scholarly transcriptions of pamphlets, reports, accounts of trials and other materials describing the experience, interpretation, and punishment of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. In very good condition: tight binding; slight shelf wear to boards; text is clean and unmarked; dust jacket lightly rubbed and creased at edges with small damp stain on lower corner of rear panel. It has been price-clipped and is protected with a mylar cover. Contents include: Laws and Punishments; Witches and Fairies; Chelmsford Witches; Miscarriage of Justice; Executions; Witches' Sabbath; Fairy Queen in Hampshire; Possession; and much more.
