This edition limited to only 200 deluxe large format copies bound in fine linen hardcovers. This important new book focuses on the origins of modern occultism in the witch or ‘Cunning Traditions’ during the early modern period of English magic. England in the late 1700s and early 1800s had a remarkably fertile and closely connected constellation of wizards, herbalists and cunning men whose personal guidance was sought in the context of the magical arts, many produced manuscripts and talismans of their own and a few were operating so publicly that their reputations were a household name: Ebenezer Sibley, Dr. John Parkins, and a host of lesser known regional characters who operated by private consultation. This new book carefully weighs up the cunning magic influences before the 19th century occult revival.
