FRANCIS, RICHARD - Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience

London, Fourth Estate Ltd, 2005, First Edition. (ISBN: 1841156760) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. First printing. The author draws on Sewell's copious diaries to enable us to see the colonial Puritans not as grim ideologues but as flesh and blood idealists, striving for a new society, Through Sewell's life, we gain access to the first, lost frontier of the New World. As new, unread copy in jacket which shows signs of slightest shelf wear. Fine/Near Fine.