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The discovery of witches : a study of Master Matthew Hopkins, commonly call'd Witch finder generall / by the Rev. Montague Summers, together with a reprint of The discovery of witches from the rare original of 1647.

Montague Summers, Matthew Hopkins · 1928 · London : The Cayme Press, 1928. · 7 pictures

A 1928 London study by Montague Summers of Matthew Hopkins, the 17th-century English witch finder, printed by the Cayme Press with a reprint of Hopkins's 1647 original. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut-style ornaments: strapwork cartouches with cherubs, heraldic panels flanked by eagles, and an oval vignette of a stag among fruiting branches, with a leaping stag beside it. A designer could draw on these as period decorative borders, emblem frames and animal motifs.

17th century · Witchcraft · England · Matthew Hopkins

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