GLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK; OR LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE OLDEN TIME
Book Details + Condition: London: Simpkin, Marshall & Company. Scarce first edition from 1850. Hardcover octavo, 334 pages. Original cloth boards decorated in blind, and lettered in gilt on spine. A thorough and broad-ranging volume, with chapters including: Monastic Communities; Witchcraft and Magic; Philosophy and Magic or the Persecution of the Learned; Rewards of Literature or the Affluence of Authors in the Dark Ages; The History of Relics; On the Tradition of the Holy Cross, Miracles and Mesmerism; The History of Leechcraft in the Dark Ages; Marriage Ceremonies; Slavery in England; Perils of Heresy and Unbelief, and much more. Frederick Somner Merryweather (1827-1900) was a British writer who specialized in "curiosities" — books on the weird and quirky in history. A solid copy, with slight wear to spine ends and fading to spine; some wear to spine edges; bumped corners; text is clean and unmarked save natural age-toning to page edges.
