The possibility and reality of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft, demostrated. Or, A vindication of a compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witcraft. In answer to Dr. Hutchinson's Historical essay ... In two parts. Part I. Containing an examination and answer of the positions laid down in that book. Part II. An essay of the nature of material and immaterial substances ..
Richard Boulton's 1722 London polemic, printed for J. Roberts, defending belief in magic and witchcraft against Francis Hutchinson's skeptical Historical Essay, aimed at learned readers in the period's witchcraft controversy. The pictures are small woodcut factotum initials — a letter in a plain box framed by winged cherub heads, acanthus scrolls, fruit baskets, leaf swags, and an eagle above pyramids — usable as drop caps, ornaments, or badge frames.
