[Rarebooks] FS: 1892 - Rare Witchcraft Novel

[Michael John Thompson]

WRIGHT, Thomas.

THE BLUE FIREDRAKE,Or The Wonderful And Strange 
Relation Of The Life And Adventures Of Nathan 
Souldrop: Showing How He Was Forspoken By That 
Terrible Sorceress Elinor Shaw, The Which For Her 
Various And Abominable Crimes Was Brought To 
Tryal At Northampton In The Year 1705; Together 
With Particulars Of Her Amazing Pranks And 
Remarkable Actions Both Before And After Her 
Apprehension, The Like Never Before Heard Of: 
Written By Himselfe And Now Set Forth by Thomas 
Wright, Principal of Cowper School, Olney.

London: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1892.

First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled 
and with a small decoration in gilt on front 
panel, gilt tiles on spine, floral endpapers. 
Frontispiece with tissue guard, line drawings 
within the text. Small stains to covers, slight 
wear to the tips, a good to very good copy, quite sound and attractive.

¶ A tale of black magic and witchcraft in early 
eighteenth-century Northamptonshire, loosely 
based on the story of Elinor Shaw, the last 
person burnt in England for the practice of 
witchcraft. The narrator is the victim of 
mesmerism and hallucinatory horrors, one of which 
is a gigantic blue dragon that materializes in 
the air.                $275.00 US

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