Item #61025 Malleus Maleficarum [ The Hammer of Witchcraft ]. the Rev. Montague Summers. Edited and, Pennethorne Hughes, Heinrich KRAMER, James SPRENGER.

Malleus Maleficarum [ The Hammer of Witchcraft ].

London: The Folio Society, 1968. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo in slipcase. 222pp. Black cloth dramatically decorated with silver and red tongues of flame on upper board, silver titling and copper decoration to spine, gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. "Marbled" grey paper covered slipcase. The most infamous text in the witch-hunters canon, Malleus Maleficarum contains a considerable collection of - often highly dubious - witch lore and myth, but it nevertheless became the standard reference work for the inquisitors and judges of the witch trials. This pleasant Folio Society edition comprises a new Introduction by witchcraft historian Pennethorne Hughes, and a slightly revised version of the Summers translation of the text. Spine a bit faded and rubbed otherwise a bright clean near Fine copy in VG slipcase (Slipcase a bit rubbed & chafed at edges with some minor loss). Item #61025

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