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"For Rémy, Satan, his demons, and his witches manifested the pollution of Christendom.
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Nicholas Rémy (c.1530-1616) composed this work, one of the most influential witch-hunting manuals of the period, from his extensive trial notes taken over a period of 15 years as a judge. Sharpe's collection was dispersed at his death, "either in two sales which lasted in total nearly a fortnight, or to various beneficiaries under his will" (ibid.).
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Sharpe contributed two songs to the second volume of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1803), and "his introduction to Robert Law's Memorialls (1818), written at Scott's suggestion and with the use of his library, remains to this day a standard history of witchcraft in Scotland" (ODNB). Sharpe and Scott shared an antiquarian interest in both collecting and witchcraft. This copy, marked as a duplicate in Scott's hand on the title page, was likely among them. Some, I think, are rather curious, and may not be undeserving a place on your shelves" (Allardyce, vol. Scott wrote to Sharpe in October 1824 thanking Sharpe for the return of some manuscript ballads and presenting him with a box of duplicates from his library: "your kindness in accepting the trifles I sent will impose upon you the trouble of inspecting a small box herewith sent, which contains a number of duplicates, from which I entreat you to select all such as you are not provided with. Scott subsequently gifted this copy to his close friend, the important Scottish antiquary, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851) in 1824, the occasion noted by Sharpe on the front pastedown: "Chas Kirkpatrick Sharpe from Sir W. First editions of this work are uncommon the last two copies to appear at auction were in 19, both in worse condition than this copy, and neither with such appealing provenance. Scott's use of the present work is clear not only in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830), in which, in Letter VII, he references the author's boast to have put to death over 900 people, but also in The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) and The Antiquary (1816). Scott's fascination with witchcraft led him to spend years gathering "perhaps the most curious library of diablerie that man ever collected" (Lockhart, p.
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Rare first edition of this seminal work on the worship of demons, Sir Walter Scott's copy, with his ownership inscription on the title page and his library shelf mark on the front free endpaper: "Abbotsford Library O13". "Rather curious, and may not be undeserving a place on your shelves" - Walter Scott