DURBIN, Henry.

A Narrative of Witchcraft 1761 (facsimile reprint edition) [ A Narrative of Some Extraordinary Things that happened to Mr. Richard Giles's Children, at the Lamb, without Lawford-Gate, Bristol; supposed to be the effect of Witchcraft.... To which is added, A Letter ... Relative to one Thomas Perks, of Mangotsfield, Who had Dealings with Familiar Spirits.... ].

United Kingdom: Hell Fire Club, ND. [2011]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 60pp. Bound quarter leather using dark brown niger and chestnut bookcloth, with matching headbands and chestnut endpapers. Printed paper title label on front board. Edition limited 120 numbered copies, this being copy no. 100. Facsimile edition of a work originally published in 1800. Full text of title-page reads: "A Narrative of Some Extraordinary Things that happened to Mr. Richard Giles' Children, at the Lamb, without Lawford-Gate, Bristol; supposed to be the effect of Witchcraft.... To which is added, A Letter from the Rev. Mr. Bedford, late Vicar of Temple, to the Bishop of Glocester, Relative to one Thomas Perks, of Mangotsfield, Who had Dealings with Familiar Spirits." The (modern) publisher decribes the work as "A compulsive and chilling account of actual poltergeist phenomena thought to have been effected by the agency of witchcraft, a small family disturbed by dark manifestations, scratchings, wounds, violent transportations, malice of a distinctly supernatural kind." Fine copy. Item #69510

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