MALLEUS MALEFICARUM - Ltd & Numbered Ed, 1928 - WITCHES' HAMMER WITCHCRAFT SATAN

MALLEUS MALEFICARUMBook Details + Condition: John Rodker (London, UK). First, Limited and Hand-Numbered Edition, 1928. This particular copy is numbered 190 out of a limited printing of 1275. Hardcover publisher's original gilt lettered red cloth over tan cloth covered boards. Quarto, 278 pages. Illustrated with engraved frontis portrait of Pope Innocent VIII. Limited first edition in English - the first English translation of the 1489 Latin edition. With Introductions, Bibliography and Notes by Montague Summers. Dominican friars Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger were charged by Pope Innocent VIII, with the Bull of 1484, which had essentially ratified the Church's powers in dealing with witchcraft, heresy and other crimes. Their goal was to investigate witchcraft, and they traveled throughout Germany gathering local lore and legend for the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM (The Witches’ Hammer). First published in 1486, the work provides detailed instructions for identifying, trying, torturing and e