Shelfmark
Km.5.06(05)
Author
Title
The vampyre; : a tale.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1819.
Physical description
xxv, [2], 28-84 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Note
By John Polidori. Published also in the New monthly magazine, April 1819, where it was attributed by the publisher to Byron. Byron subsequently repudiated this and it was claimed by Polidori
Note
Printer statement on t.p. verso and p. 84 reads: "Gillet, printer, Crown Court, Fleet Street, London".
Note
Issue with setting of gathering [A] which ends with 17 lines of text and a footnote on p. xvi.
Note
"Extract of a letter from Geneva" (p. [vii]-xvi)
Note
"Extract of a letter, containing an account of Lord Byron's residence in the island of Mitylene." (p. [73]-84)
Note
The "extracts from letters" have been ascribed to John Mitford, R.N. cf. BM. and Notes & queries, 3rd ser., v. 7, p. 201
Binding
Sewn; original grey paper wrappers. Housed in red cloth box numbered "1" with other works by or attributed to Byron.
Copy-specific note
[16] pp. of advertisements for "Periodical works published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, ..." dated November 2nd, 1818 bound in at end.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Cr.3.
Subject
Vampires Fiction.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Gillet, John, active 1804 - 1817 printer.
Added entry--name
Sherwood, Neely, and Jones publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Link
Bodleian Library (OC) 250 a.317 http://purl.ox.ac.uk/uuid/e0989f905a714e1a86b638003564db8f
Identifier
B46863