Lives Of The Necromancers: Or, An Account Of The Most Eminent Persons In Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed For Themselves, Or To Whom Has Been Imputed By Others, The Exercise Of Magical Power.
by GODWIN, William [1756-1836]
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About This Item
London: Frederick J.Mason, 1834. First Edition of the radical English journalist, political philosopher and novelist’s last book, which was written "to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity of the human mind." Godwin’s survey of witchcraft and supernatural beliefs begins with biblical stories and ancient superstitions and ends with the witch trials of the seventeenth century in England and New England. Included are chapters on Pythagoras, Dido, the Oracles, the Arabian Nights, Merlin, St. Dunstan, Roger Bacon, Macbeth, Joan of Arc, Savonarola, Faustus, Paracelsus, Benvenuto Cellini, Doctor Dee, &c. One of the admirers of the book was American author Edgar Allan Poe who wrote a review of it for the ‘Southern Literary Messenger’ in 1835. NCBEL II 1250. Wellcome III p. 130. cfCaillet 4627. 8vo. pp. xx, 465, [1]errata, [2]ads. with half-title. A nice uncut & partly unopened in original cloth-backed bds. with paper spine label (some staining to cloth, lower front joint frayed, foxing to endleaves). elala5694
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- Lives Of The Necromancers: Or, An Account Of The Most Eminent Persons In Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed For Themselves, Or To Whom Has Been Imputed By Others, The Exercise Of Magical Power.
- Author
- GODWIN, William [1756-1836]
- Book Condition
- Used
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- First Edition of the radical English journalist, political phil
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- Hardcover
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- London: Frederick J.Mason, 1834
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- General Witchcraft
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