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SPRENGER, Jakob and KRMER, Heinrich. Malleus maleficarum , [Lyons: Jean Marion 23 February 1519]. 8 o (140 x 97mm.). Gothic type, large metalcut printer's device (two unicorns flanking a palm on which is hung a shield with Marion's initials), woodcut capitals. (Lacking last leaf [blank?]). Old black paper boards. (Rebacked in cloth, preserving original hand-lettered paper spine label.) Norman 1997 -- SPRENGER and KRMER. Malleus maleficarum [with other works], Lyons: Claude Bourgeot 1669. 4 vols in one, 4 o (242 x 180mm). Engraved vignette on titlepages, woodcut ornaments. (A few marginal dampstains in vol 1). Contemporary speckled calf, edges sprinkled red. (Rebacked, new gilt-lettered spine labels). Provenance : the Croxteth Library (engraved bookplates). A late and perhaps the last edition of The Hammer of Witches , comprising a veritable anthology on witchcraft and exorcism and containing some 18 additional treatises on witchcraft, demonism and exorcism. Osler 3315; cf. M. Summers 1928 translation, pp.xxxvi-xxxvii for a list of the contents; Norman 2002 -- SPRENGER and KRMER. Malleus maleficarum translated with an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes by the Rev. Montague Summers . [London:] John Rodker 1928. 2. Publisher's quarter red vellum and buckram boards, edges uncut. Limited Edition, no.13 of 1275 copies. An attractively printed modern edition of the celebrated Hammer of Witches . Norman 2003. Together 3 works in 4 vols. (4)