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Publisher s cloth, 8vo., 288pp., Frontispiece. Illustrations. Cloth binding and dust jacket. Book is fine in a near-fine price-clipped dust wrapper. A very collectible copy. Thought to be the father of modern witchcraft, Gerald Gardner published The Meaning of Witchcraft in 1959, not long after the U.K. laws punishing witches were repealed. It was the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. Chapters include Witches' Memories and Beliefs, The Stone Age Origins of Witchcraft, Druidism and the Aryan Celts, Magic Thinking, Curious Beliefs about Witches, Signs and Symbols and The Black Mass.