• This edition includes the following editor's introduction: What do we understand by Alchemy? A detailed and practical introduction to understand the concept

English journalist and author William Henry Davenport Adams built up a reputation for himself as a popular science writer, translator, and lexicographer, but he also wrote several successful children's books.

In “Witch, Warlock, and Magician,” published in 1889, William Henry Davenport Adams gives a general introduction to alchemy in Europe and traces the development of magic and alchemy in England from the fourteenth century onwards.