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Title: Preface (Tales of the Dead) Title Record # 1895189
Author: Sarah Elizabeth Utterson
Date: 1813-00-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
Note: The first publication, as "Advertisement", is not credited, and ends without a closing name, date, or location (pp. [i]-ii, viewed at HathiTrust). Our record of that 1813 publication notes: "The translator (and author of the original short 'The Storm') was revealed to be 'Mrs. Utterson' in relation to an 1820 reprint, though no scan of that or any later 19th century edition is available online at this time (August 2015)." The plural title of 2018 is from the Contents list (viewed as "Look inside" at Amazon UK 2019-12-19; ebook only, no page numbers). That suggests the anthology contains material from a later edition or printing of Tales of the Dead, perhaps that which identifies Mrs. Utterson, etc. The "Look" contains all of the Foreword and Publisher's Note, but they say nothing about the "Prefaces".
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1813 Advertisement (Tales of the Dead) [as by uncredited]
2018 The plural title suggests that the 2018 anthology contains material from, if not the whole of a revised or a second preface, presumably from a post-1813 edition of Tales of the Dead. See the parent essay record.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Tales of the Dead 1813-00-00 ed. uncredited White, Cochrane & Co.  
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).
viii+
248
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Horror Stories 2018-12-15 ed. Mary Shelley (in error) Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78664-807-5
£20.00?£: UK pound
480
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Horror Stories 2018-12-15 ed. Mary Shelley (in error) Flame Tree Press (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78755-256-2
$9.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
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