• Publication: Tales of the DeadPublication Record # 531985
• Editor: uncredited
• Date: 1813-00-00
• Publisher: White, Cochrane & Co.
• Price:
  9/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: viii+248
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • First edition All contents uncredited
  • Most contents translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson from the French Fantasmagoriana (which was itself translated by J.B.B. Eyries from various German sources).
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) and Internet Archive title page provide full view of one copy from the Library of Congress whose interior is complete. The plain red cloth cover, with LC bookplate affixed inside, may not be original. On the title page, "Mrs. Utterson" is pencilled under the line (all caps) "translated from the French."
  • Price is from lists (5 found) of new publications in September- and October-dated issues. Two from October may be quarterly lists: "List of New Works Published in the Months of June, July, and August, 1813" British Review and London Critical Journal 5.9 p267; and "Quarterly List of New Publications, from August, to November 1813" Edinburgh Review p246. There is a short listing without comment in the February 1814 next issue of The British Review (#5.10 p535), as new works published Dec, Jan, and Feb. Hardcover format is from the most complete of five listings (Brit Rvw #5.9), in full: "Tales of the Dead ; principally translated from the French. Crown 8vo. 9s. boards." None of 5 listings names a publisher or contributor. No contributor is identified in the one 1813/1814 review found by search for the title: New Review or Monthly Analysis of General Literature 2.12 (December 1813) p593-95.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001198441
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1575
  • LCCN: 10-2411
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 7089659
  • Reginald-1: 14400

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• i • Advertisement (Tales of the Dead) • essay by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (variant of Preface (Tales of the Dead)) [as by uncredited]
• iii • Preface of French Translator (Tales of the Dead) • essay by J. B. B. Eyries (trans. of Preface (Fantasmagoriana) 1812) [as by uncredited]
• 3 • The Family Portraits • novelette by A. Apel (trans. of Die Bilder der Ahnen 1805) [as by uncredited]
• 64 • The Fated Hour • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Die Verwandtschaft mit der Geisterwelt 1810) [as by uncredited]
• 94 • The Death's Head • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Der Todtenkopf 1811) [as by uncredited]
• 121 • The Death-Bride • novella by F. Laun (trans. of Die Todtenbraut 1811) [as by uncredited]
• 178 • The Storm • short fiction by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson [as by uncredited]
• 193 • The Spectre-Barber • novella by
  Johann Karl August Musäus^?Johann Karl August Musaeus
  (trans. of Stumme Liebe 1782) [as by uncredited]