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Description
Title: THE EXISTENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS PROVED; AND THEIR AGENCY, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO THE HUMAN RACE. EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Jackson and Walford
City: LondonYear: 1845 (Second Edition)
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 474, followed by publisher advertisements
Illustrated: No
Book Details + Condition: Very scarce second edition from 1845 of (Sir) Walter Scott's THE EXISTENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS PROVED; AND THEIR AGENCY, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO THE HUMAN RACE. EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED. An extremely rare book on demonology and evil spirits, by an author well known for his work on witchcraft and demonology. Original embossed cloth boards; includes errata. Binding is tight; overall shelfwear to boards; bumped corners; chip to upper spine; cloth covering spine mostly disintegrated; very faint library stamp on text block; bookplate on inside front board; withdrawn stamp on front endpaper & inside back board; owner's name on title page; periodic age toning & mottling/foxing to pages; otherwise no markings or writing in text. Please see pictures for more detail. Walter Scott (1779-1858), President and Theological Tutor at Airedale College in Bradford, delivered a series of lectures on the occult at the Congregational Library in 1841. This volume is a collection of those lectures, which use scriptural and testimonial evidence to evaluate the existence of evil spirits and 'fallen angels'.
