WITCHCRAFT]. GIFFORD, GEORGE. A Discourse of the subtill Practices of Devilles by Witches and Sorcerers. By which men are and have bin greatly deluded. London: [T. Orwin] for Toby Cooke 1587. Small 4to, 179 x 122 mm. (7 1/16 x 4 13/16 in.), dark brown crushed levant mococco, covers panelled in gilt and blind with floral tools at center and corners of inner panel, spine similarly gilt in compartments, the 18th-century blind-tooled calf sides inset as doublures, turn-ins with double gilt fillet borders, beige moiré silk liners, g.e., matching morocco-edged slipcase, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp-signed on upper turn-in, inner margin of title-leaf renewed, headline of C4v printed awry and just shaved, lightly washed . FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, black letter, headlines, headings and shoulder-notes in roman, chapter numbers in italic, title within woodcut border showing David and Moses (McKerrow & Ferguson 117), 9-line and smaller floriated woodcut initials. STC 11852. George Gifford (d. 1620) was a popular noncomformist preacher who was suspended from the ministry in 1584 and twice arrested for publicly rejecting the articles of the established church. In the present Discourse he nevertheless espoused the accepted belief in witchcraft as a manifestation of the Devil, and sought to refute the boldly critical arguments of Reginald Scott, whose Discoverie of Witchcraft , published 3 years earlier, attacked the belief in magic and witchcraft as superstition (so greatly upsetting the powers that be that all copies were condemned to be burnt by James VI, himself the author of a refutation of the work, upon his accession to the English throne in 1603). RARE. Provenance : Charles Clark of Totham Hall, letterpress bookplate (a poem), dated 1860 in ink -- Charles Tabor, engraved nineteenth-century bookplate -- Walter T. Shirley II, bookplate.
WITCHCRAFT]. GIFFORD, GEORGE. A Discourse of the subtill Practices of Devilles by Witches and Sorcerers. By which men are and have bin greatly deluded. London: [T. Orwin] for Toby Cooke 1587. Small 4to, 179 x 122 mm. (7 1/16 x 4 13/16 in.), dark brown crushed levant mococco, covers panelled in gilt and blind with floral tools at center and corners of inner panel, spine similarly gilt in compartments, the 18th-century blind-tooled calf sides inset as doublures, turn-ins with double gilt fillet borders, beige moiré silk liners, g.e., matching morocco-edged slipcase, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp-signed on upper turn-in, inner margin of title-leaf renewed, headline of C4v printed awry and just shaved, lightly washed . FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, black letter, headlines, headings and shoulder-notes in roman, chapter numbers in italic, title within woodcut border showing David and Moses (McKerrow & Ferguson 117), 9-line and smaller floriated woodcut initials. STC 11852. George Gifford (d. 1620) was a popular noncomformist preacher who was suspended from the ministry in 1584 and twice arrested for publicly rejecting the articles of the established church. In the present Discourse he nevertheless espoused the accepted belief in witchcraft as a manifestation of the Devil, and sought to refute the boldly critical arguments of Reginald Scott, whose Discoverie of Witchcraft , published 3 years earlier, attacked the belief in magic and witchcraft as superstition (so greatly upsetting the powers that be that all copies were condemned to be burnt by James VI, himself the author of a refutation of the work, upon his accession to the English throne in 1603). RARE. Provenance : Charles Clark of Totham Hall, letterpress bookplate (a poem), dated 1860 in ink -- Charles Tabor, engraved nineteenth-century bookplate -- Walter T. Shirley II, bookplate.
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