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Ewen, C. L'Estrange.
Witchcraft and Demonianism.
Publisher: Heath Cranton, Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1933
Stock Code: 15486
First edition. Octavo, pp., 495, [1], plus frontispiece and 8 photographs on 7 plates, as called for. Publisher’s original red cloth; titled in black to spine; white end-papers. Former ownership inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Soiling, mottling and cup-mark to cloth; light scuffs to lower board; hinges a touch rubbed. Light spotting to title-page, otherwise internally clean. A serviceable copy. A detailed scholarly examination of the primary documents of witch trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ewen was a social historian, and used evidence from archival documents to demonstrate how witch trials actually operated. £180.00