An introduction to European alchemy and a history of the practise of witchcraft and magic from the fourteenth century through to the seventeenth century.

William H. Davenport Adams presents the work of magicians and astrologers from fourteenth-century England through to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First published in 1889, this volume gives historical accounts of witchcraft and records of witch trials.

Featuring the following chapters:
- The English Magicians

- Roger Bacon: The True and the Legendary

- The Story of Dr. John Dee

- The Last of the English Magicians: William Lilly

- Witches and Witchcraft

- Early History of Witchcraft in England

- The Decline of Witchcraft in England

- The Literature of Witchcraft