Summers (Montague) The Discovery of Witches.
£175
A Study of Master Matthew Hopkins commonly call’d Witch Finder Generall…together with a Reprint of The Discovery of Witches from the rare original of 1647
London, at The Cayme Press, 1928.
First edition. Small 4to. Original wrappers with printed title label to upper cover.
Summers’ introductory narration on Matthew Hopkins’s The Discovery of Witches, an essay by the notorious seventeenth-century witch hunter who was the driving force behind the execution of more than a hundred alleged witches in the 1640s.
In stock
Ink name and small ex-libris label to front free endpaper, some minor spotting; covers worn with some loss, minor spotting to title-label.
Frontispiece and illustrations.
Provenance: Alan Gauld, parapsychologist, psychologist and spiritualist writer (ink name and ex-libris label).
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