WITCH STORIES - Linton, 1st 1861 - BRITISH RECORDED WITCHCRAFT CASES, TRIALS

WITCH STORIESBook Details + Condition: Chapman and Hall (London). First Edition, 1861. Hardcover with three-quarters leather binding, marbled boards and endpapers, and gilt detailing to spine. 428 pages. One of the most well known collections of historical witch stories — recorded cases in England and Scotland — gathered by Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898), the first female salaried journalist in Great Britain, and the author of more than twenty novels. She was also a regular contributor to both of Charles Dickens' weekly magazines. In this work, Linton presents recorded cases of witchcraft in Scotland and England — gathered to allow every reader to "judge for himself" the truth and nature of witchcraft. From the Preface: "In offering the following collection of witch stories to the public... I was obliged to be content with such authorities as I found in the British Museum, and the other public libraries to which I had access." (Apparently she tried to access the more valuable private co