The Wonders of the Invisible World:
Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches
by Cotton Mather

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[editor's note: paging irregular]

The wonders of the invisible world : being an account of the tryals of several vvitches, lately excuted [!] in New England : and of several ... Printed first, at Bostun [!] in New-England ; and reprinted at London : for John Dunton, 1693. 112pp.

Notes: Paging irregular. The last leaf sig. [R2] contains advertisement of "books lately printed for John Dunton." Typography and style of head-lines vary. Recto of first prelim. leaf half-title: The tryals of several vvitches, lately executed in New-England: published by the special command of the Governour. On verso: Imprimatur. Decem. 23. 1692. Edmund Bohun. The author’s defence, p. [1-2] [Letter from William Stoughton, p. [3]; prefatory note by Mather, p. [4]] Enchantments encounter’d, p. 5-[17] A discourse on the wonders of the invisible world; uttered (in part) on August 4, 1692: p. 2-16, 33-80, 41-56, 89-98. First London edition. A 2d edition, greatly abridged, was published, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 62 p., and a 3d edition, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 64 p.

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