or Yve-Plessis in his Bibliographie Française de la Sorcellerie. We are, perhaps, fairly safe if we assign the editio princeps to Lyons, 1590, although the issue by Rigaud, Lyons, 8vo, 1590, is termed “3me édition.” It should be noted that this impression of 1590 must have differed in many particulars from the treatise as it subsequently appeared, since the editions of 1602, 1603, and later commence with the bewitching of Loyse Maillat in June, 1598. In 1590 examples from the trials could not have been given. There is a Lyons edition, 8vo, 1602, “Par Jean Pillehotte, à l’enseigne du nom de Iesvs,” and this would seem to be the first edition of the treatise as we now actually have it. In the following year, 1603, the same publishers issued the “Seconde Edition augmentee & enrichie par l’autheur de plusiers autres procez, Histoires & Chapitres,” Lyons. This was “Acheué d’imprimer le xix Nouembre 1603,” and a “Privilege du Roy” expressly
