[ wrongly attributed to M.G.Lewis] possibly anonymous contributions by Scott, Southey, and Leyden.
Title
TALES OF TERROR with an Introductory Dialogue
PlacePub
London
Publisher
Printed for L.Bell by Bulmer & Co.
Date
1801
Illustrations
Copperplate extra titlepage with emblems of death & snakes, swords, crosses etc.
Description
Octavo purple vellum spined marbled boards (very worn, corners & other paper lacking, spine strong) 149pp lacks most of final blank and quite some damp staining but paper is good quality rag and has thus taken no structural harm. Pages are uncut to front and bottom edge, as issued. Harriet Cholmeley ownership dated March 1801 on fly leaf and later name Harriet M.P. Strickland on margin of titlepage. *A parody in verse of M.G. Lewis's "Tales of Wonder" to whom it was first attributed but according to Montague Summers on no evidence (see Gothic Bibliography p 525-7). Lewis's book was first published in the same year. It has anonymous contributions by Scott, Southey, and Leyden according to the Cambridge catalogue. It was reprinted in 1808 with three illustrations added and in Philadelphia in 1813. This first edition seems only to be held by Cambridge and the British Library and Yale in America. Quite scarce and collectable.
Booknumber
V69284
Price
Price: GBP 180.00 or USD 266.00
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