Fantasmagoriana, ou, Recueil d'histoires d'apparitions de spectres, revenans, fantômes, etc.

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  • traduit de l'allemand, par un amateur.
  • Paris : Chez F. Schoell ..., 1812.
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    Call Number
    BF1462 .F36 1812
    Status
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    Contents

    Tome premier: L'amour muet ; Portraits de familie ; La tete de mort -- Tome second: La morte fiancée ; L'heure fatale ; Le revenant ; La chambre grise ; La chambre noire.

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    Description:
    2 volumes (xiv, 2 unnumbered pages, 276 pages ; 4], 303 pages, 1 unnumbered page) ; 18 cm
    Published:
    Paris : Chez F. Schoell ..., 1812.
    Manufactured: [Paris] : Imprimerie de Le Normant
    Language:
    French
    Cited In:
    Garside, P. English novel, volume 2, page 390.
    Snodgrass, M.E. Encyclopedia of Gothic literature, page 127
    Notes:
    "Un amateur" = Jean Baptiste Benoît Eyriès. Cf. Garside.
    "No German original has been discovered."--Garside.
    "In the Introduction to the 1831 edn. of her Frankenstein, Mary Shelley mentions that a reading of ... this work in the company of Byron, Polidori and Percy B. Shelley ... prompted their decision to write ghost stories."--Garside.
    Publisher's advertisements printed on title page verso.
    Local Notes:
    RBC copy: Two volumes bound in one. Bound in half green calf with marbled boards; spine decorated and lettered in gilt; spine title on brown leather label, decorated and lettered in gilt; top edge appears to have been stained green, now faded; other edges untrimmed. Textile bookmarker. 130 page manuscript appendix containing 16 additional stories and table of contents bound in at end. Imperfect: title page from volume 2 wanting. Armorial bookplate of Bibliotheca Gabrielli.
    OCLC Number:
    56763335

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