A defense of the proceedings against Jane Wenham : wherein the possibility and reality of witchcraft are demonstrated from Scripture, and the concurrent testimonies of all ages : in answer to two pamphlets, entituled, I. The impossibility of witchcraft, &c. II. A full confutation of witchcraft

Creator
Bragge, Francis, 1664-1728
Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747 (publisher)
Form
books
Date
1712
Language
English
Subject
Wenham, Jane, -1730
Witchcraft -- England -- Hertfordshire
Witchcraft
Geographic Subject
England -- Hertfordshire
Collection
Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Extent
4 unnumbered pages, 36 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Publisher
Printed for E. Curll ..
Related Place
England -- London.
Notes
Signatures: [A]² B-E⁴ F².
Publisher's advertisements on verso of first leaf.
Lea Library copy 1 bound with: The case of the Hertfordshire witchcraft consider'd. London : Printed for John Pemberton ..., MDCCXII [1712] -- Bragge, Francis. A full and impartial account of the discovery of sorcery and witchcraft. London : Printed for E. Curll ..., 1712.
Lea Library copy 2 is no. 3 in a vol. of 8 works bound together.
Lea Library copy 2 has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1909, of Henry Charles Lea.
Lea Library copy 2 has the bookplate of Charles F. Cox on front pastedown; ms. notes in pencil on front free end paper; scrap of paper with bookseller's printed information laid in.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34x55j53
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Lea Collection, S-22.2.6
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Lea Collection, S-22.2.5
Provenance
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
Cox, Charles F. (bookplate)
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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