Ashwin Trans E a (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO Dustwrapper. Limited & Numbered. Collected in 3 Books from many Sources (Limited Edition) Showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated. Edited and with notes by the Rev. Montague Summers. Translated by E.A. Ashwin. Many nice woodcuts throughout. Limited Hand-Numbered Edition (Number 98 of 1275 copies) Ex-libris plate of Ivon Braby. John Rodker, London 1929. illus xxii + 206pp hb No Dust-wrapper, 1/4 gilt black cloth, pict gilt red cloth, covers slightly rubbed, 2 page edges untrimmed, front hinge slightly cracked, pages browned, nice copy, vg.

Limited edition of 1275 copies only printed by Richard Clay. Quarto, pp., xliii, [1], 188, [2] blank. Printed in red and black. Publisher's quarter saffron-stained parchment over oat buckram, tilted in gilt to spine. Fore and bottom-edges uncut. Soiling to spine, and very slightly to boards. Some leaves toned to margins only, and some gatherings a little proud. Generally a very good copy. The first English translation of Rémy's 'Daemonolatreiae Libri Tres' (1595), which is drawn from the trials of 900 people executed for witchcraft in the Duchy of Lorraine. It is, alongside the Malleus Malificarum (1496), one of the most significant books on witches and demons ever published.