A short history of the Salem village witchcraft trials : illustrated by a verbatim report of the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe
A local history of the 1692 Salem village witchcraft trials, written and published by Martin Van Buren Perley in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1911 for antiquarian and general readers. The plates mix photographic facsimiles of manuscript warrants and signatures with line engravings of clapboard colonial houses and schematic site maps, giving designers period handwriting, gable-roofed building profiles, and sparse dotted-line plans.















