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The impossibility of witchcraft

plainly proving, from scripture and reason, that there never was a witch; and that it is both irrational and impious to believe there ever was. In which the depositions against Jane Wenham, lately try'd and condemn'd for a witch, at Hertford, are confuted and expos'd

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  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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8 unnumbered pages, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8vo (19 cm) Printed on title-page: Price six pence

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda, internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and wellcome matched “Witchcraft” and “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and “Witchcraft” in the edition title.

    • “Witchcraft”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Witchcraft”· via Internet Archive
    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “witchcraft”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject

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plainly proving, from Scripture and reason, that there never was a witch, and that it is both irrational and impious to believe there ever was : in which the depositions against Jane Wenham, lately try'd and condemn'd for a witch, at Hertford, are confuted and expos'd

University of Pennsylvania digitized edition

8 unnumbered pages, 36 pages ; 20 cm (8vo); Culture Class Collection copy has leaves A2, A3, and F2 detached.; Culture Class Collection copy has title leaf wanting.; Lea Library copy has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1909, of Henry Charles Lea.; Lea Library copy has the bookplate of Charles F. Cox on front pastedown; ms. notes in pencil on front free end paper; scrap of paper with bookseller's printed information laid in.; Lea Library copy is no. 5 in a vol. of 8 works bound together.; Leaf D2 is unsigned.; Pages 17-24 incorrectly numbered 25-32, respectively.; Signatures: A-E⁴ F².

1712Printed, and sold by J. Baker ..English—Public download

plainly proving, from scripture and reason, that there never was a witch; and that it is both irrational and impious to believe there ever was. In which the depositions against Jane Wenham, lately try'd and condemn'd for a witch, at Hertford, are confuted and expos'd

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

8 unnumbered pages, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8vo (19 cm)

1712London : Printed, and sold by J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row; Printed, and sold by J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-RowEnglish—Public

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Open Library work
Internet Archive
Colenda
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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9944284323503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Lea Collection, S-22.2.6; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, EC7 A100 712i
  • Provenance: Cox, Charles F. (bookplate); Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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