Price: £3,000
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1819
Stock Number: 60494
(Your basket is currently empty)a Tale.
Description: FIRST EDITION, fourth issue, complete with half-title and both Extracts, a little very light spotting, pp. xxv, [i], [27-] 84, 8vo, contemporary half calf, terracotta lettering piece (later, but blending in perfectly), slightly worn at extremities, and repair to head of spine, goodPublication Details: Printed [by Gillet] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819
Notes: Fourth issue: without Byron's name on the title-page, gathering 'A' reset to 23 lines to account for the removal of a slur on Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont, and 'almost' corrected on p. 36. An agreeable copy in a contemporary binding. Pasted inside the front cover is an old bookseller's description, not identifying the issue, but asserting 'it is difficult to know who wrote this work' (though Polidori's name is given within square brackets).
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