WITCH STORIES

by Linton, Lynn, compiler

$1,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Octavo, pp. i-iii iv 1 2-428, original decorated red pebbled cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. Probably the best collection of Victorian witch stories, a collection of hundreds of recorded cases of witchcraft in Scotland and England. Stories of the most dismal and repulsive nature says

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