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[Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, translator and editor.] Tales of the Dead. London: Printed [by S. Hamilton] for White, Co...
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[Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, translator and editor.] Tales of the Dead. London: Printed [by S. Hamilton] for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. First edition. Octavo. 7 5/8 ix 5 inches (192 x 130 mm). [1. half title], [1, blank], [1, title], [1, blank], viii, 248 pages. Later quarter calf over marbled boards, red calf spine label lettered in gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed, moderate edgewear, light wear at head and foot of spine, some rubbing to spine label, covers rubbed. Text block edges lightly toned, top edge dusted, bookseller's notation to front free endleaf, pages toned with scattered foxing and staining, several small tears along fore-edge of half title and title. Very good.This first edition was translated from the original French by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, née Brown, who additionally included her own short story titled "The Storm" as the fifth story in the collection. Though published anonymously, "The Storm" was highly praised by critics such as Francis Palgrave and bibliographer William Carew Hazlitt, the former of which invited Utterson to contribute further ghost stories to the public, though ones focused on "our own country ghosts instead of presenting us with alien spectres." Additionally, this title is an abridged translation of Fantasmagoriana (1812), containing its first five stories; Fantasmagoriana was, famously, the book read by Lord Byron during that fateful night at Villa Diodati in June 1816, and which ultimately inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819). From the Gary Munson Collection
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2023 February 2 The Gary Munson Collection Showcase Auction #31175 (go to Auction Home page)
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