The discovery of witchcraft: proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions .... In sixteen books

Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599, Baldwin, Alfred, 1841-1908, former owner, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · 1665 · London, Printed for A. Clark and to be sold at Mris. Cotes's, 1665. · 17 pictures

Reginald Scot's 1665 London edition of The Discovery of Witchcraft, a sixteen-book treatise against witch trials, printed for a general readership of the period. Its pictures are small woodcut tables of planetary symbols, astrological signs and numbered grids, with a designer able to draw on their dense, rule-bound geometric layouts and ornamental glyph patterns.

Demonology · Early works to 1800 · Magic · Witchcraft

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