DUGUID, David. Hafed, Prince of Persia: His Experiences in Earth-Life and Spirit-Life. Being Spirit Communications Received Through Mr. David Duguid, the Glasgow Trance-Painting Medium. With an Appendix, containing Communications from the Spirit Artists, Ruisdal and Steen. London: James Burns. 1876.
8vo. Original publisher's cloth (worn, endpapers renewed); pp. xii, 580, 24 lithographic plates (several tinted); spotting in places; a rare survival.
Very rare first edition. Duguid was a Glasgow spiritualist medium who at séances produced automatic paintings in complete darkness. Of course he was exposed as a fraud but continued to perform.
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