Two added t.p.: p. [2], The dance of death; engraved from the fresco-paintings on the cemetery wall of St. John's church at Basle; p. [3], Todtentanz der Stadt Basel.
42 designs and a death's head (a portrait when reversed) engraved after the…
"This edition of Malleus maleficarum, comprising 1275 numbered copies, is here translated into English from the edition of 1489 for the first time ... This copy is no. 1088.
"A note upon the bibliography of the Malleus maleficarum": p. xli-xlii.
Translation based on the standard Middle English text, The Bestiary: B. M. Arundel 292, in Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250, edited by J. Hall, 1920. Includes bibliography.
Two hundred copies reprinted verbatim from the original editions.
Includes reprints of original title-pages, "A prodigious & tragicall history of the arraignment, tryall, confession, and condemnation of six witches at Maidstone, in Kent ... London.…
A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an…