Lot 736
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Tales of Terror - [Lewis, Monk]
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
with an introductory dialogue. [London]: for L. Bell by Bulmer & Co, 1801. First edition, 8vo, additional engraved title with vignette, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 2 hand-coloured engraved plates, leaf of advertisements at end, original boards, rubbed, spine repaired with vellum, some browning and foxing, early 19th century ink poem on verso of last leaf of text "The Worm King"
Footnote
Note: According to Montague Summers, Gothic bibliography, p. 525, the works is often attributed erroneously to M.G. Lewis. It is in fact a parody of Lewis's Tales of wonder (1801).
Provenance: Mrs Brock Sherborne, 1807, inscription on printed title; Pitman Jones, bookplate.