Roberts, Alexander

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

A Treatise of Witchcraft. ... With a True Narration of the Witchcrafts which Mary Smith, Wife of Henry Smith Glover, Did Practise: of Her Contract Vocally Made Between the Devill and Her ... by Whose Meanes She Hurt Sundry Persons Whom She Envied: Which Is Confirmed by Her Owne Confession, and Also from the Publique Records of the Examination of Diverse upon Their Oathes: and Lastly, of Her Death and Execution, for the Same ... London: Printed by N[icholas] O[kes] for Samuel Man, 1616
paper, ink, leather

4to (7 x 5 in.; 178 x 127 mm). Woodcut headpieces and initials, printer's ornaments; light discoloration throughout, small wormhole in gutter of title-page, scattered stains on C4, rust hole on E3 affecting 3 words. Mottled calf gilt by Roger de Coverly, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; rebacked, spine laid down.

Provenance

Cardiff Castle (bookplate) — Christie's London (20 November 1980, lot 274)

Literature

STC 21075; ESTC S115983; Cornell Catalogue 475; https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/treatise-witchcraft-1616-alexander-roberts/

Catalogue Note

First edition.