The Svantovit Press, 1999. 395 pages. Blue linen hardcover. facsimile of second edition. Limited Edition.

8.75 x 5.75 inches

DEFOE, Daniel. The Secrets of the Invisible World Disclos’d: Or, An Universal History of Apparitions Sacred and Prophane, Under All Denominations; whether, Angelical, Diabolical, or Human-Souls. 

Includes information on angels, “the Devil in Humane shape,” apparitions in dreams, “when to be afraid… and when not.” “Defoe’s religious views, otherwise those of the orthodox dissenters, were marked by a queer admixture of popular superstition. His love of the current ghost stories and delight in the vulgar supernaturalism appear in… an Essay on the Reality of Apparitions, afterwards called The Secrets of the Invisible World Disclosed… In June 1725 he had adopted the pseudonym of Andrew Moreton, which he afterwards used frequently for purposes of concealment” (DNB). Essay on the Reality of Apparitions was published in 1727, and “the same sheets were reissued with a new title-page” as Secrets of the Invisible World Disclos’d, first in 1728 and again in 1729 as here (Moore 494). Lowndes, 620. Graesse II:352.