GLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK - 1st, 1850 - WITCHCRAFT MAGIC PERSECUTION SUPERSTITIONS ELVES & GNOMES Small embossed stamp on the

Small embossed stamp on the title page and p

Author's inscription and signature on first blank page

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

The boards and binding are solid and tight save for minimal shelfwear and light fading to the spine

GLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK - 1st, 1850 - WITCHCRAFT MAGIC PERSECUTION SUPERSTITIONS ELVES & GNOMES Small embossed stamp on theGLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK; OR LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE OLDEN TIME. Book Details + Condition: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. (London). Scarce first edition from 1850. Hardcover octavo, 334 pages. Original cloth boards with spine labels. A thorough and broad ranging volume, with chapters including: Monastic Communities; Witchcraft and Magic; Philosophy and Magic or the Persecution of the Learned; Rewards of Literature or the Affluence of Authors in the Dark