[First Edition] THE PACK OF AUTOLYCUS or Strange and Terrible News Of Ghosts

Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, near pristine but lettering just a little dull. xvii + 270, 26 small text ills from original broadsides. From the library of the eminent Dr Alan Gauld (1932-2014), psychologist and parapsychologist, formerly Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Nottingham, President of the Society for Psychical Research (1989-1992) and author of numerous books on spiritualism, paranormal phenomena and the history of hypnosis.His small ex-libris label bottom front pastedown, otherwise no internal faults. Most of the contents were originally collected by Anthony Wood, an Oxford antiquarian, and cover years barely covered by the Samuel Pepys's or other collections. All are in verse form, some with black-letter prose introductions. Scarce in UK 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm

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