Judge Sewall's Apology : The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
xvi, 414pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Very lightly bumped spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. 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.
