Prescriptions and Descriptions

Prescriptions and Descriptions was written by Francis Sutton-Grove in 1749. In it, Sutton-Grove endeavours to "lay down rules for practical magic". Gilbert Norrell, who greatly admired Sutton-Grove's other book - De Generibus Artium Magicarum Anglorum - nonetheless considered Prescriptions and Descriptions to be "abominably bad"; Jonathan Strange sufficiently despised the book that he tore up and fed his copy to a donkey [5]
(N.B. This would not have constituted book-murder, since Prescriptions and Descriptions is a book about magic rather than a book of magic.)