1831 2nd Edtn LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT By Sir Walter Scott Illus. W. H. Lizar Very Good Esoteric

1831 2nd Edition , 
LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT

By Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.

Illustrated By: W. H. Lizar
William Home Lizars (1788 – 30 March 1859) was a Scottish painter, engraver and publisher.

Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
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Published By: John Murray, London

sextodecimo or sixteenmo (16mo 4 × 6+3⁄4 102 × 171),Pages 396

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources. His book found many readers throughout the 19th century, and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Victorian vogue for Gothic and ghostly fiction. Though on first publication it met with mixed reviews, it is now recognised as a pioneering work of scientific anthropology, treating of its subject in an acute and analytical way which prefigures later scholarship on the subject, as well as presenting a highly readable collection of supernatural anecdotes.



SKU: BTETM0002357
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg