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Boguet, Henry.
An Examen of Witches.
Publisher: John Rodker, Great Britain;
Date of Publication: 1929
Stock Code: 14267
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. £250.00