GLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK - 1st, 1850 - WITCHCRAFT MAGIC PERSECUTION SUPERSTITIONS FAIRIES library number on copyright page

library number on copyright page & one other page (with library stamp)

Discusses the Indian origins of the tarot

The softcover wraps are solid and tight with minimal visible shelfwear

which was coined by Frederic Myers

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GLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK - 1st, 1850 - WITCHCRAFT MAGIC PERSECUTION SUPERSTITIONS FAIRIES library number on copyright pageGLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK; OR LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE OLDEN TIME. Book Details + Condition: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. (London). Scarce first edition from 1850. Hardcover octavo, 334 pages. Original cloth boards with spine labels. A thorough and broad ranging volume, with chapters including: Monastic Communities; Witchcraft and Magic; Philosophy and Magic or the Persecution of the Learned; Rewards of Literature or the Affluence of Authors in the Dark