• Publication: The Vampyre: A TalePublication Record # 297827
• Author: uncredited
• Date: 1819-03-27
• Publisher: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones
• Pages: xxv+84
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • Data from Google Books scan and from Heritage Auctions.
  • First printing is misattributed to Byron.
  • Second issue (this record) has Byron's name removed, and has the original 24 line preface and no ads at the end.
  • Third issue has a quotation from Hamlet on the title page, and includes 4 pp. of advertisements at the end.
  • Picture of 2nd issue title page shown at Bloomsbury Auctions.
  • The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive.
  • Primary Verification done from those scanned images.
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1323
  • LCCN: 27-8947
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 730306

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vi • Extract of a Letter from Geneva • essay by John Mitford [as by uncredited]
• xix • Introduction (The Vampyre) • essay by Dr. John William Polidori [as by uncredited]
• 27 • The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori (variant of The Vampyre: A Tale) [as by uncredited]
• 73 • Extract of a Letter, Containing an Account of Lord Byron's Residence in the Island of Mitylene • essay by John Mitford [as by uncredited]