The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

Scot, Reginald | Useful for the notes and introduction

Auction Closed

October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 2,000 USD

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Scot, Reginald

The discoverie of witchcraft … Being a Reprint of the First Edition Published in 1584 (ed. Brinsley Nicholson). London: Elliot Stock, 1886


4to (216 x 178 mm). Half-title, 1886 title printed in red and black. Explanatory notes, glossary, and introduction by Nicholson. Pages i–viii detached, ix–xxxii loose. Nineteenth-century half morocco over maroon pebbled cloth boards, marbled endpapers, dry rot on spine, upper board and front free endpaper detached.

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