$14,000
Scot, Reginald. The Discovery of Witchcraft. London: Printed for Andrew Clark, and are to be sold at Mris. Cotes’s near the Golden-Ball, in Aldergate-Street, 1665. Third Edition, Second Issue. Modern mottled olive calf blind-tooled in period style, raised spine, morocco title label gilt-stamped. 9 leaves, 1 – 292, 6 leaves, second title, 1 – 72, 1 leaf. 4to. Ample margins (11 ¾ x 7 ½”). Illustrated with woodcuts. Pencil and ink annotations on title page and flyleaves, intermittent pale marginal soiling, ink blots and rust marks; one chipped corner remargined (M2), a few other slight losses at edges restored. Circular stamp of Bradford Public Libraries, scattered pencil marginalia at rear. Toole Stott 621 (the second issue of the third edition “the scarcest of all the issues of this work”).
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
