1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION
1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION

1835 - LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS - William Godwin - MAGICK WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION

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Title: LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS. OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN SUCCESSIVE AGES, WHO HAVE CLAIMED FOR THEMSELVES, OR TO WHOM HAS BEEN IMPUTED BY OTHERS, THE EXERCISE OF MAGICAL POWER.

AuthorWilliam Godwin
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
City: New York
Year: 1835 
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 307

Illustrated: No

Book Details + Condition: From 1835, the scarce LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERSOR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN SUCCESSIVE AGES, WHO HAVE CLAIMED FOR THEMSELVES, OR TO WHOM HAS BEEN IMPUTED BY OTHERS, THE EXERCISE OF MAGICAL POWER. This was the final book written by English journalist, political philosopher and novelist William Godwin (1756-1836). Shelfwear present, please see pictures. Slight lean; bumped and rubbed corners and spine edges; rips to lower front endpaper (very fragile paper); rear endpaper missing. Age-toning to title page and sporadic foxing throughout. No interior writing otherwise. Still a solid and firm, well bound copy. The book concerns paranormal legends from Western and Middle Eastern history. In 1835 it was reviewed by Edgar Allan Poe of the Southern Literary MessengerGodwin made his mark with An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793), published novels, essays, several biographies, treatises on economics, and a well-received History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-1828), married Mary Wollstonecraft (1797), and saw their daughter Mary elope with Percy Bysshe Shelley (1814). Contents of this thorough work include: Astrology; Oracles; Delphi; Dreams; Casting of Lots; Divination; Fairies; Rosicrucians; Sylphs and Gnomes; Examples of Necromancy and Witchcraft in the Bible; Demigods; Proceedings Against Witchcraft; and so much more. Please see Table of Contents.