An essay on the history and reality of apparitions. : Being an account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not. As also how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits and how we ought to behave to them. With a great variety of surprizing and diverting examples, never publish'd before
Daniel Defoe's 1727 treatise on apparitions, published in London by J. Roberts for general readers interested in the supernatural. The four pictures are decorative engraved head- and tailpieces of scrolling acanthus, cherubs, birds, a masked face, and fruit baskets, cut in a restrained Baroque manner that suits ornamental borders, cartouches, and vintage frame designs.
