![]() ![]() Cotton Mather, in the preface, presents himself as a simple chronicler of the facts. ![]() ![]() Although not directly involved in the trials which led to the execution of 19 people, Increase wrote in defence of one of the judges, albeit criticising the importance that the court had placed on dreams and visions as evidence in the trials. Cotton s father Increase, was a respected judge in the same community. This book contains the first account of these trials written by Cotton Mather (1663 1728), one of the leading religious authorities of the second generation of Puritan settlers in Boston. The trials of witches that were carried out within the community of Salem in 1692, are among the best-known examples of this infamous social practice of the 17th and 18th centuries. Bound in fine modern calf, all edges in red. Damp staining visible on upper-right corner of a few leaves at beginning and end mild marginal foxing throughout browning on initial and final leaves. Lower margins trimmed with occasional loss of catchwords minimal loss at right margin of G2. Roman letter with some Italic and Gothic type at headings and occasionally within the text. Title page backed, half-title including imprimatur on verso Author s Defense and Presentation Letter by Chief Justice William Stroughton. ![]()
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