Item #64465 Devil-Worship In France or, The Question of Lucifer; A Record of Things Seen and Heard in the Secret Societies According to the Evidence of Initiates [ Devil Worship in France ]. Arthur Edward WAITE.
Devil-Worship In France or, The Question of Lucifer; A Record of Things Seen and Heard in the Secret Societies According to the Evidence of Initiates [ Devil Worship in France ].
Devil-Worship In France or, The Question of Lucifer; A Record of Things Seen and Heard in the Secret Societies According to the Evidence of Initiates [ Devil Worship in France ].
Devil-Worship In France or, The Question of Lucifer; A Record of Things Seen and Heard in the Secret Societies According to the Evidence of Initiates [ Devil Worship in France ].

Devil-Worship In France or, The Question of Lucifer; A Record of Things Seen and Heard in the Secret Societies According to the Evidence of Initiates [ Devil Worship in France ].

London: George Redway, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 326pp. Original black cloth, with red titling on spine and upper board, colored top edge, other edges untrimmed. Waite's study of the supposed rebirth of organized satanism or 'black magic cults' in nineteenth century Europe. In the early 1890s France had been swept by rumours of a masonic-satanist conspiracy, centered around an arch Satanist called Diana Vaughan. Waite produced this level headed study of the subject several years before the main perpetrator of the stories was revealed as a hoaxer. (Gilbert A 13). Front free endpaper glued to front pastedown. Appears to be ex-library copy with just few markings as evidence: Call nos to spine and adhesive from bookplate (no longer present) on verso of front free endpaper. Otherwise cloth a bit rubbed with some discolouration to upper board, spine canted and spine ends bruised & quite chafed with some significant chipping, tearing and loss at upper spine (see photo), pages browned but clean and unmarked. Overall a solid G+ copy. No dust jacket. Item #64465

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