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1882 Demonologies; A discourse on witchcraft 1st ed
1882 Demonologies; A discourse on witchcraft 1st ed
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1882 Demonologies; A discourse on witchcraft Hardcover

by Edward Fairfax

Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft as It was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Fayston, in the County of York, in the Year 1621; Along with the Only Two Eclogues of the Same Author Known to be in Existence. With a Biographical Introduction and Notes Topographical & Illustrative.

Harrogate: R. Ackrill, 1882. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 190pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. The first complete edition of a work that was written over 250 years previously. 

In it the author Edward Fairfax, laid forth in sincere and eloquent prose, his painfully misguided conviction that his neighbors had attacked his children with witchcraft, killing his daughter Anne. The case was tried at court, and the defendants acquitted. 

Fairfax's account circulated in manuscript and was eventually published in the Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies of the Phelonion Society in 1858. 

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