[Rarebooks] FS: The MALLEUS MALEFICARUM, 1st Edition in English, in DJ

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering: The First Edition in English of 'The 
Witches' Hammer', the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM, in the original dust jacket.
While not a rare book, it is certainly so in the 
jacket - in over 30 years I have never seen 
another copy offered in the dust jacket.


KRAMER, Heinrich and SPRENGER, Jakob. SUMMERS, Montague [editor & translator].

MALLEUS MALEFICARUM. Translated with an 
Introduction, Bibliography and Notes by the Rev. Montague Summers.

Place Published: London
Publisher: John Rodker.
Date Published: 1928
Edition: First Edition in English.

Description:

THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION, issued in a 
limited edition of 1275 hand-numbered copies, 
this being copy No. 102. Printed on specially 
made Dutch paper. Large octavo (300 x 190mm) pp. 
xlv, 278. Publisher's red parchment spine with 
light brown buckram boards. Titles in gilt to 
spine and Papal insignia in gilt to front board. 
Edges untrimmed with plain endpapers. Original 
pale cream dust jacket with titles and blurb 
printed in blue to front panel in the shape of a 
vase (or urn). Frontispiece portrait of Pope 
Innocent VIII, title page printed in red and 
black. Text in double columns. A little bumping 
to the head and foot of the fragile parchment 
spine, but essentially a fine copy with clean 
pages. The uncommon dust jacket has had some 
professional restoration, very sympathetically 
undertaken using Japanese tissue and careful 
colouring. An excellent copy, rare in the dust jacket.

Comments:

¶ An excellent copy of the first title in 
Rodker's 'The Church and Witchcraft' series and 
the first translation into English of this 
notorious witch hunter's handbook, first 
published in 1487. Coumont [I4.40]; d'Arch Smith [B16].

Priced at $1,500.00 US; we can offer this today for $850.00 US net.

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