Edizione rarissima speciale numerata 829 su 1275 copie su carta speciale olandese.
Sehr seltenes Buch, Nr. 829 von1275, auf spezialpapier Gedruckt.
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In our rare book collections I have this curious work by Montague Summers (1880-1948), an eccentric Catholic clergyman, occultist and authority on English Restoration drama. Summers read theology at Oxford University and worked as a teacher of English and Latin before turning to writing, producing well-received scholarly works on 17th century theatre and publishing new editions of neglected plays by William Congreve, John Dryden and others.
After drama, Summers? other great interest was in the occult. During his unusual career as a priest he assumed the persona of a modern-day Catholic witch-hunter and produced meticulous studies of witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, all of which he professed to believe in. In 1928, he was responsible for the first English translation of Heinrich Kramer's and James Sprenger's Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches"), a notorious Latin treatise on witch-hunting, first published in Germany in 1487.
The book is number 829 out of 1275 numbered copies on a special Dutch paper.
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