The Village Doctor / Florian and Frescenz / Magic and Witchcraft
London: Chapman and Hall, 1858. Very Good. Item #49912
London: Chapman and Hall, 1858. Three 12mo volumes bound in one; publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Corners bumped, textblock uniformly browned, dampstaining to endpapers bleeding into textblock. About Very Good and sound overall. Slightly later (1874) ownership signature of a James Watsford at head of title page. Bound collection of sixpenny reprints as follows:
1. Sophie, the Countess d'Arbouville; Lady Duff Gordon [trans.]. The Village Doctor. 1853. viii,102pp. Short novella by the French author Sophie d'Arbouville (1810-1850), written sometime in the winter of 1843 to be read aloud at a Parisian salon. The work was taken up by Queen Amelie, who had it published in the original French at the Royal press and "sold at a high price, for the benefit of the victims of Guadaloupe [sic]" - from the translator's preface (p. vii).
2. Berthold Auerbach; Meta Taylor [trans.]. Florian and Crescenz, a Village Tale from the Black Forest. 1853. viii,95pp. One of a series of Black Forest stories written by the German author Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882), offering a realistic portrait of the region's peasant population.
3. [George Moir.] Magic and Witchcraft. 1852. vi,[2],104pp. The only non-fiction piece in this bound volume, a short account of the history of witchcraft with chapters on Lucifer, sources of superstition, executions, tortures, the amusements of witches, and histories of persecution in Sweden, Germany, Hungary, and England.
OCLC locates three copies of this volume as of September 2026 at Stanford, the Toledo Lucas County Library, and Penn State.
Price: $1,250.00