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The witchcraft delusion in New England; its rise, progress, and termination, as exhibited by Dr. Cotton Mather, in The wonders of the invisible world; and by Mr. Robert Calef, in his More wonders of the invisible world. With a preface, introduction, and notes, by Samuel G. Drake ..

Drake, Samuel Gardner, 1798-1875, Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728, Calef, Robert, 1648-1719 · 1866 · Roxbury, Mass., Printed for W.E. Woodward · 5 pictures

A three-volume antiquarian reprint of Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World and Robert Calef's rebuttal, edited with notes by Samuel G. Drake and printed in a small edition at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1866 for collectors of New England history. The illustrations are wood-engraved decorative printer's material: foliated initial letters, birds flanking a lettered panel, grotesque masks, and a lyre-and-scroll tailpiece, all hatched black line usable as spot ornament.

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