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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (Classic Reprint)
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - Classic Reprint Author:Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION. , . SIR WALTER SCOTT'S Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft were his contribution to a serjes of books, published by John :rvlurmy, which appearcd between the years 1829 and 1847, and formed a collection of eighty volumes known as "Murmy's Family Library" The series was planned to secure a wide diffusion of good literature in cheap... more » fifty shilling volumes, and Scott's" Letters," written and published in 1830, formed one of lhe carlier books in the collection. The Society for lilt! Diffusion of Uscful Knowledge had been founded in the autumn of 1826, and Charlts Knight, who had then concci-'cd a plan of a National Library, was entrusleo) in July, 1827, with the superintendence of its publications. Its first trealises appeared in sixpenny numbers, once a fortnight. Its c, British Alm~nac" and" Companion to the Almanac" first appeared at the beginning of 1829. Charles Knight started also in that year his own " Library of .En tertaining
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