• Publication: Hieroglyphic TalesPublication Record # 811545
• Author: uncredited
• Date: 1785-00-00
• Publisher: Strawberry-Hill Press
• Pages: ix+50
• Format:
  unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: Six copies privately printed by Thomas Kirgate of Strawberry Hill; beside the printer's proof that Walpole revised by hand, which may have been incomplete. Page count from Worldcat (OCLC, below) which also provides viatal notes. Reginald states that there is mixed pagination and lists the binding as "cloth?". British Library record BL 003842456 is nearly empty, evidently from a secondary source on the six-copy "edition". BL 003574882 reports the printer's proof ("one of seven copies privately printed") with manuscript notes by Walpole and "no regular sequence of pages". It gives no page count, nor list of contents, but vital notes refer twice to page 51, once in closing "pp. 49-51 are supplied in MS [manuscript]".
• External IDs:
  • BL: 003574882 003842456
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1008291744
  • Reginald-1: 14820

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Preface (Hieroglyphic Tales) • essay by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]
• A New Arabian Night's Entertainment • short story by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]
• The King and His Three Daughters • short story by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]
• The Dice-Box: A Fairy Tale • short story by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]
• The Peach in Brandy: A Milesian Tale • short story by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]
• Mi Li: A Chinese Fairy Tale • short story by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]
• A True Love Story • short story by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]
• Postscript (Hieroglyphic Tales) • essay by Horace Walpole [as by uncredited]