The Devil’s Plantation
Authored by: Nigel G. Pearson
Published by: Troy Books
Taking its name from the lost ‘black book’ of a famed Cambridgeshire witch, as well as plots of land sacrificed unto the spirits and the Old One himself, Nigel Pearson’s ‘The Devil’s Plantation’ guides the reader through the traditional witchcraft, old magic and folklore of East Anglia.
This is an ancient landscape, and a melding pot for the beliefs, culture and magic of the various peoples who have inhabited it over its long history. And yet, until very recently, East Anglia has been a land ‘set apart’ and isolated amidst impassable marshes, Fens and uncleared Forests.
Thus East Anglia is a landscape in which ‘the good folk’, land drakes, land wights, meremaids, giants, spectral hounds, saintly miracles, wort Cunning, toad lore, folk magic and indeed witchcraft have been nurtured and continue to play a part in the lives of the people of what has aptly been named ‘Witch Country’.
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Paperback Edition
Publication date: 2016.
ISBN: 978-1909602113
Original price: £15.50
Contributors
Illustrative Content by: Gemma Gary.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm.
Page Count: 272 pages, plus 16 pages of photographic plates.
Illustrative content: 16 pages of photographic plates plus line drawings and figures.
Binding
Binding: Matt laminated cover.
Paper: 80gsm white paper stock.
Standard Hardback Edition
Original price: £18.99
Contributors
Illustrative Content by: Gemma Gary.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm.
Page Count: 272 pages, plus 16 pages of photographic plates.
Illustrative content: 16 pages of photographic plates plus line drawings and figures.
Binding
Binding: Blueberry case binding. Gold foil blocking to the front and spine. Buttermilk endpapers. Black head and tail bands.
Paper: 80gsm white paper stock.
Dust Jacketed Hardback Edition
Publication date: 2025.
Original price: £29.00
Contributors
Illustrative Content by: Gemma Gary.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm.
Page Count: 272 pages, plus 16 pages of photographic plates.
Illustrative content: 16 pages of photographic plates plus line drawings and figures.
Binding
Binding: Gloss laminate dust jacket over a gloss laminate cover.
Special Edition
Copies printed: Limited to 300 copies.
Contributors
Illustrative Content by: Gemma Gary.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm.
Page Count: 272 pages, plus 16 pages of photographic plates.
Illustrative content: 16 pages of photographic plates plus line drawings and figures.
Other: Hand-numbered.
Binding
Binding: Bound in dark brown recycled leather fibres. Gold foil blocking to the front and spine. Light brown endpapers. Black head and tail bands.
Paper: 80gsm white paper stock.
Black Edition
Original price: £36.00
Copies printed: Limited to 200 copies.
Contributors
Illustrative Content by: Gemma Gary.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm.
Page Count: 272 pages, plus 16 pages of photographic plates.
Illustrative content: 16 pages of photographic plates plus line drawings and figures.
Other: Hand-numbered.
Binding
Binding: Bound in black recycled leather fibers. Black foil blocking to the front and spine. Red endpapers. Red head and tail bands.
Paper: 90gsm white paper stock.
Fine Limited Edition
Copies printed: Limited to 15 copies.
Contributors
Illustrative Content by: Gemma Gary.
Physical Description
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm.
Page Count: 272 pages, plus 16 pages of photographic plates.
Illustrative content: 16 pages of photographic plates plus line drawings and figures.
Other: Hand-numbered.
Binding
Binding: Handbound in full black goat leather, inset dark blue goat leather shield panel with a blind embossed border and dark blue title panel on the spine. Silver foil blocking to the front and spine. Hand marbled endpapers.
Content Note
Other: Blue library buckram slip-case, blind embossed to the front.
