[WITCHCRAFT]. GIFFORD or GIFFARD, George (d.1620). A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts. In which is laid open how craftily the divell deceiveth not onely the Witches, but many other, and so leadeth them awrie into manie great errours. London: R.F. and F.K. for Arthur Johnson, 1603. Black letter. (Light dampstain, blank gutter margin of last leaf cut away). In this popular work (first published in 1582), Gifford "admitted the existence of witches, but sought to mitigate the excesses of their persecutors" (Norman). STC 11851; Norman 903. -- COTTA, John (1575?-1650?). The triall of Witch-craft, shewing the True and Right Methode of the Discovery. With a Confutation of Erroneous Wayes London: George Purslowe for Samuel Rand, 1616. Roman type. (Title-page with light stain, two leaves of dedicatory epistle shaved at fore-margin, some headlines and shoulder notes cropped.) First edition. A treatise by a physician, questioning the traditional methods for the detection of witchcraft. Osler 2377; Wellcome 1636; STC 5836; Norman 520. -- [POWELL, GABRIEL]. A Refutation of an Epistle Apologeticall Written by a Puritan-Papist to perswade the Permission of Promiscuous Use and Profession of all Sects and Heresies...With the Punishment of Heretiques and Idolaters. London: Arnold Hatfield for Thomas Man Jr., 1605. A vehement attack on religious toleration. First edition. STC 20149. Together 3 vols. in one, 4o (167 x 128mm). Early nineteenth-century half black morocco, gilt spine (Lightly rubbed.) Provenance: George Chalmers (1742-1825) Scottish antiquary, pamphleteer and Shakespearean (engraved bookplate); Robert Comte de Crewe (bookplate).

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[WITCHCRAFT]. GIFFORD or GIFFARD, George (d.1620). A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts. In which is laid open how craftily the divell deceiveth not onely the Witches, but many other, and so leadeth them awrie into manie great errours. London: R.F. and F.K. for Arthur Johnson, 1603. Black letter. (Light dampstain, blank gutter margin of last leaf cut away). In this popular work (first published in 1582), Gifford "admitted the existence of witches, but sought to mitigate the excesses of their persecutors" (Norman). STC 11851; Norman 903. -- COTTA, John (1575?-1650?). The triall of Witch-craft, shewing the True and Right Methode of the Discovery. With a Confutation of Erroneous Wayes London: George Purslowe for Samuel Rand, 1616. Roman type. (Title-page with light stain, two leaves of dedicatory epistle shaved at fore-margin, some headlines and shoulder notes cropped.) First edition. A treatise by a physician, questioning the traditional methods for the detection of witchcraft. Osler 2377; Wellcome 1636; STC 5836; Norman 520. -- [POWELL, GABRIEL]. A Refutation of an Epistle Apologeticall Written by a Puritan-Papist to perswade the Permission of Promiscuous Use and Profession of all Sects and Heresies...With the Punishment of Heretiques and Idolaters. London: Arnold Hatfield for Thomas Man Jr., 1605. A vehement attack on religious toleration. First edition. STC 20149. Together 3 vols. in one, 4o (167 x 128mm). Early nineteenth-century half black morocco, gilt spine (Lightly rubbed.) Provenance: George Chalmers (1742-1825) Scottish antiquary, pamphleteer and Shakespearean (engraved bookplate); Robert Comte de Crewe (bookplate).