THE DAMNED ART: ESSAYS IN THE LITERATURE OF WITCHCRAFT
Book Details + Condition: Routledge and Kegan Paul (London, Henley and Boston). First Edition, 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket. 247 pages with Index. Edited by Sydney Anglo. A compilation of essays on witchcraft by some highly noted authors and critics, with essays including:
- The Malleus Maleficarum: Evident Authority and Authoritative Evidence
(Sydney Anglo)
- Witchcraft and Magic in Italy: Gianfrancesco Pico and his Strix (Peter Burke)
- Johann Weyer's De Praestigiis Daemonum: Unsystematic Psychopathology (Christopher Baxter)
- Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft: Scepticism and Sadduceeism (Sydney Anglo)
- King Jame's Daemonologie: Witchcraft and Kingship (Stuart Clark)
- Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World: Some Metamorphoses of Salem Witchcraft (M. Wynn Thomas)
- Two Late Scottish Witchcraft Tracts: Witch-Craft Proven and The Tryal of Witchcraft (Christina Larner)
- And much more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. In very good condition, with firm binding; Parker's bookplate to inside front board and embossed stamp to title page; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only.
