Malleus Maleficarium by Jacobus Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, The Hammer of Witchcraft. Translated by Montague Summers and edited with an introduction by Pennethorne Hughes. The Folio Society, London 1968. 4 vo., 221 pp. With 24 woodcut illustrations which were first published in Milan, in 1626, in the Compendium Maleficarum compiled by Father Franciscus Maria Guaccius. Only occassionally do they specifically illustrate the text of the Malleus, and are more intended as a complement to it.
"We can never sympathize: but this history may help us to understand and perhaps to question, if need arises, our own righteousness." (Final sentence/conclusion in the book)
Book is in very good+ condition except some fading to spine. Housed in a grey marbled slipcase.
