Description

or his Whimsical Amusements, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates by Barlow after the author, one loose, frontispiece and title-page soiled, some leaves browned, contemporary calf-backed paste-combed boards, rubbed, [Toole Stott 881], 12mo, Manchester, Joseph Harrop, 1763. This rare little book contains the humorous "Codicil to the Last Will and Testament of James Clegg, Conjurer", and "Prickshaw-Witch blown up, or the Conjurer Out-conjur'd", involving the astrologer and fortune-teller George Clegg. Toole Stott located only one copy, but there are two others in the British Library. No copy appears to have been sold at auction.