Compendium maleficarum /
collected in 3 books from many sources by Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo of the Order of St. Ambrose ad Nemus ; showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated ; edited with notes by the Rev. Montague Summers ; translated by E.A. Ashwin.

Description

Main Author

Guazzo, Francesco Maria

Related Names

Rodker, John, 1894-1955, publisher.
Ashwin, E. Allen, translator.
Summers, Montague, 1880-1948, author of introduction, etc.

Language(s)

English

Published

Bungay, Suffolk : Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited.
London : John Rodker, 1929.

Subjects

Witchcraft.
Exorcism.
Demonology.
Exorcisme > Exorcisme / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Sorcellerie > Sorcellerie / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Démonologie > Démonologie / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Exorcism > Exorcism / Early works to 1800.
Witchcraft > Witchcraft / Early works to 1800.
Demonology > Demonology / Early works to 1800.
Early works.

Note

Title vignette; title page and page 1 printed in black and red.
Illustrations reproduced from the woodcuts in the first (Latin) edition of 1608.
Collation: [A]⁸ b⁴ B-O⁸ [$1 signed]; 116 leaves, pages [2 unnumbered (blank)] [i-iv] v-xxi [xxii (blank)], [1] 2-206 [207-208 (blank)].
Printer from verso of title page.
"This edition is of 1275 copies only, this copy being numbered [blank]"--Title page verso.

Physical Description

2 unnumbered pages, xxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 206 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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