An Examen of Witches. An Examen of Witches Drawn From Various Trials of Many of This Sect in the District of Saint Oyan de Joux Commonly Known as Saint Claude in the County of Burgundy Including the Procedure Necessary to a Judge in Trials for Witchcraft. translated by E. Allen Ashwin - edited by the Rev. Montague Summers.

Boguet, Henry.

Edité par Great Britain; John Rodker, 1929., 1929

Number 972 in a limited edition of 1275 copies only. Octavo, pp., xxix, 328. Publisher's black and hatched green quarter cloth with gilt title to spine, top-edge stained green, others uncut. In an unclipped dust-jacket bearing Hieronymus Bosch's painting 'Last Judgement'. Dust-jacket slightly soiled with a few closed tears and loss to head and tail of spine and corners. Originally published in the late 16th century, 'An Examen of Witches' is a definitive witch-hunting guide. Boguet served as a notoriously ruthless chief of justice in France and his novel recounts trial proceedings under his care for a multitude of supernaturally related crimes, such as making pacts with demons. This edition is edited by Montague Summers, the fabulously eccentric cleric and scholar of the occult, most famous for publishing the first English translation of the infamous 'Malleus Maleficarum'. Rare in the original dust-jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 14267

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Titre : An Examen of Witches. An Examen of Witches ...
Éditeur : Great Britain; John Rodker, 1929.
Date d'édition : 1929
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette
Edition : Edition originale