<p><b>An introduction to European alchemy and a history of the practise of witchcraft and magic from the fourteenth century through to the seventeenth century.</b></p>

<p>William H. Davenport Adams presents the work of magicians and astrologers from fourteenth-century England through to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First published in 1889, this volume gives historical accounts of witchcraft and records of witch trials.</p>

<p>Featuring the following chapters:</p>
<ol>- The English Magicians</ol>
<ol>- Roger Bacon: The True and the Legendary</ol>
<ol>- The Story of Dr. John Dee</ol>
<ol>- The Last of the English Magicians: William Lilly</ol>
<ol>- Witches and Witchcraft</ol>
<ol>- Early History of Witchcraft in England</ol>
<ol>- The Decline of Witchcraft in England</ol>
<ol>- The Literature of Witchcraft</ol>