Tales of Terror; with an Introductory Dialogue..., second edition, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece, additional vignette title and 2 folding plates, occasional light soiling but generally a good clean copy, contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in calf, new endpapers preserving old bookplate of George Marton, 8vo, 1808. ⁂ A delightfully macabre work, originally assumed to be by Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis but now assumed to be a parody. "The book is gruesome and in its illustrations even disgusting and it seems impossible that Lewis could have had anything to do with it. Some of the ballads are too coarse and grotesque to stand comparison with any work by M.G.Lewis." Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography.
Tales of Terror; with an Introductory Dialogue..., second edition, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece, additional vignette title and 2 folding plates, occasional light soiling but generally a good clean copy, contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in calf, new endpapers preserving old bookplate of George Marton, 8vo, 1808. ⁂ A delightfully macabre work, originally assumed to be by Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis but now assumed to be a parody. "The book is gruesome and in its illustrations even disgusting and it seems impossible that Lewis could have had anything to do with it. Some of the ballads are too coarse and grotesque to stand comparison with any work by M.G.Lewis." Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography.
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