Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq.
Second Edition, engraved frontispiece after J. Skene, ownership annotations to front free endpaper, contemporary green half calf over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, title in gilt to spine, 12mo, London, John Murray, 1831.
Second edition of Walter Scott’s popular work on witchcraft and the supernatural. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources. The work was commercially successful and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Victorian vogue for Gothic and ghostly fiction.

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