A discourse on witchcraft. Occasioned by a bill now depending in Parliament, to repeal the statute made in the first year of the reign of King James I, intituled An act against conjuration, witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits.
A London pamphlet of 1736 printed for J. Read and sold by booksellers, arguing in Parliament against the 1604 witchcraft statute of James I, as a polemic for a general reading public. The four pictures shown are decorative woodcut ornaments and headpiece bands: scrolling acanthus, urns, a central cameo portrait, a rising sun over a landscape, and a heraldic eagle on a pedestal, offering designers period-authentic border and vignette models.
