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Webster, John
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. Wherein Is Affirmed that There Are Many Sorts Of Deceivers and Impostors, and Divers Persons under a Passive Delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. London: Printed by J.M., 1677
- paper, ink, leather
Folio (13 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.; 337 x 222 mm). Initial imprimatur leaf; title-page and imprimatur leaf foxed, minor marginal stain on 2I2r. Nineteenth-century calf paneled gilt, marbled endpapers, spine gilt, black morocco lettering pieces, edges gilt; extremities rubbed.
Provenance
Richard Holmden (engraved armorial bookplate) — Henry Huth (white morocco ticket) — Compton Mackenzie (bookplate)
Literature
Wing W1230; ESTC R12517; Huth V:1572–73
Catalogue Note
First edition, the Huth copy on large paper. A fine, bright copy.