WITCH STORIES [THE MAYFAIR LIBRARY]
Book Details + Condition: Chatto and Windus (London). Early Edition, 1883. Hardcover with decorated olive-green boards. 320 pages. E. Lynn Linton's collection of stories on the occult from English and Scottish folklore. The book offers a glimpse into the Victorian fascination with the occult and the power of suggestion. Stories include:
- Alison Pearson and the Fairy Folk
- The Crimes of Lady Fowlis
- White Witches
- The Pitiful fate of Margaret Barclay
- Lady Lees Penny and the Witches of 1629
- Sandie and the Devil
- The Trial of Spirits
- The Devil of Glenluce
- Jonet Watson and the Devil in Green
- Clowts and the Serpent
- Lizzie Muddie and Her Victims
- The Devil in His Cups
- The Ghost of the Black-Browed Maid
- The Succubus
- The Island Witches
- The Spell of the Slap
- The Last of the Witches
- The Witch of Berkley
- Early Historic Trials
- The Witches of St. Osees
- The Witches of Warbois
- The Man of Hope and the Devil
- Mary and her Cats
- The Second Curse of Pendle
- The Witch of a Plank
- The Witch-Finding of Hopkins
- The Manningtree Witches
- The Huntingdon Imps
- The Witch in the Brake
- The Stringy Meat
- The Geological Bewitchment
- The Astral Spirits Assault
- The Youghal Witch
- The Surrey Demoniac
- And more.
From the massive occult collection of Dr. Alan Gauld (1932–2024), distinguished British psychologist, parapsychologist, and historian of psychical research based at the University of Nottingham. His library included significant works on mediumship, hypnotism, and the founders of psychical research, often marked with his ownership inscriptions or ex libris labels. He authored many respected works, including The Founders of Psychical Research (1968), Mediumship and Survival (1982), and A History of Hypnotism (1992). Firm binding; light normal aging and shelf wear to boards; toning to endpapers; Gauld's ex libris and name to front endpapers; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
