WITCHCRAFT
Book Details + Condition: Taplinger Publishing Co (New York). First American Edition, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large octavo. 408 pages. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Edited by Barbara Rosen. Includes black-and-white illustrations, bibliography and indices. Rosen presents scholarly and first-hand transcriptions of pamphlets, reports, accounts of trials and other materials describing the experience, interpretation, and punishment of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Contents include:
- Laws and Punishments
- Witches and Fairies
- Chelmsford Witches
- Miscarriage of Justice
- Executions
- Witches' Sabbath
- Fairy Queen in Hampshire
- Possession
- The Swimming Test
- And much more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; Parker's bookplate and info to front endpapers; 15 pp with inked underlining and marginal notations; dust jacket shows normal wear, mainly at corners and edges. It has been price-clipped.
