The Witches of Salem

This collection gathers contemporary documents of the 1692-93 Massachusetts witch-hunt at Salem Village and neighbouring towns. Typical materials include depositions of the afflicted girls, examinations of the accused, indictments, petitions, sermons, and later recantations or apologies by jurors and ministers. Figures such as Tituba, Rebecca Nurse, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, and the ministers Samuel Parris and Cotton Mather appear as they do in the records. The arrangement is usually chronological, so that accusation, spectral evidence, and the court's collapse can be followed as a sequence of papers. It is a documentary anthology of the trials, not a novel.

Three-quarter bound in black cloth, with white cloth front board blocked with a black design by Melinsky. Dark pink endleaves. Dark red slipcase.