MARY SCHWEIDLER, THE AMBER WITCH. THE MOST INTERESTING TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT EVER KNOWN.
Translated by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon.
- London & New York: sold by Hacon & Ricketts, printed at the Ballantyne Press under the supervision of Charles Ricketts, The Vale Press/John Lane, 1903.
- 8vo
- full crushed red morocco, gilt borders with decorated ornaments on front and rear covers, five rised bands, title in gilt on spine in second compartment, gilt borders on spine, leather turn-ins decorated in gilt, top edge gilt
- 156, (2) pages
Price: $595.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 137470
One of 300 copies, 287 of which were for sale in Britain and the US. (Ricketts, page xxx; Watry, Vale Press B39). This particular copy is bound in full leather by Stikeman & Co., with the binder's ticket stamped in gilt at the bottom of the rear pastedown. The spine of the book has been reattached professionally. Minor shelfwear. Light offsetting to the marbled free endpapers from the leather turn-ins. Else a beautiful copy. The first English edition was published in 1844, this being the first Vale Press edition.
"This quasi-historical tale of witchcraft purported to be a true chronicle set down by William Meinhold. Oscar Wilde praised Lady Duff Gordon's 'brilliant translation' (Wild 1908, 388), first published in 1843." -Watry, page 169.