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Durbin, Henry.
Witchcraft at the Lamb Inn Bristol.
Publisher: Vance Harvey Publishing, Leicester;
Date of Publication: 1971
Stock Code: 15488
Limited edition facsimile of 1000 copies only, reproduced photographically after the 1800 original, with a new introduction by Robert A. Gilbert. Octavo, pp., [viii], 60. Publisher’s emerald buckram; titled in gilt to spine and upper board; grey end-papers. Former gift inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Minor shelf-wear to extremities; top edge foxed; binding otherwise strong and square. Internally clean. A very good copy. A photo-facsimile of the 1800 pamphlet ‘A Narrative of Some Extraordinary Things that Happened to Mr. Richard Giles’s Children, at the Lamb, without Lawford’s-Gate, Bristol; supposed to be the effect of Witchcraft.’. The pamphlet was a combination of an eyewitness account of a haunting, with a letter from a man ‘who had dealings with familiar spirits’. £45.00