THE AMBER WITCH - 1st 1844 - WITCH TRIALS, WITCHCRAFT, SATAN, LITERARY HOAX

THE AMBER WITCH. THE MOST INTERESTING TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT EVEN KNOWN. PRINTED FROM AN IMPERFECT MANUSCRIPT BY HER FATHER ABRAHAM SCWEIDLER, THE PASTOR OF COSEROW, IN THE ISLAND OF USEDOM.Book Details + Condition: John Murray (London). First Edition thus, 1844. Hardcover with marbled boards and three-quarter leather binding. 171 pp. By Mary Schweidler. Edited by Wilhelm Meinhold, and translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. Bound with SELECT BIOGRAPHIES: CROMWELL AND BUNYAN, by Robert Southey (180 pp). "The Amber Witch" is a German novel published in 1838; it was originally published as a literary hoax which purported to be an actual 17th-century chronicle. Meinhold later admitted to the hoax, but had difficulty in proving that he was its author. In 1844, it was published in England as THE AMBER WITCH, which was translated by Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (this copy, currently for sale). Lady Duff Gordon's translation was popular with the Victorians, and went through numerous editions