Dramatic Tales (2 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from the Critical Review. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 12 x 21 cms. Category: Critical Review; Printed before 1800; Special Features. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 24mo. Not dated circa 1840. Bound in half leather with marble paper covered boards. With a beautiful inscription in ink 'If thou art borrowed by a friend right welcome should he be to read to study not to lend but to return to me read slowly and frequently think seriously and . duly with the consideration of the lender not . ' Preface; Title page and 240 pages with contents and illustrations listed at rear on one sheet. Contents complete, each with a folding hand coloured plate, are the following: The Field of Footsteps; The Sorceress; Eily O'Connor or the Foster Brother; The Evil Eye; Twn John Catty the Welsh Rob Roy; The Victim of St.Vincent; Pedlar's Acre or the Wife of Seven Husbands; The Bottle Imp. The last title, 'The Bottle Imp' is missing the title page but the frontispiece is present.The cover has light wear and some rubbing, otherwise a very nice clean tight edition. Size 108 x 68mm [3.25 x 2.75 inches] John Duncombe was a well-known London printer and bookseller based in Little Queen Street, Holborn, specialising in theatrical, sensational, and popular literature. The Dramatic Tales were a popular series published in a small format for the masses. They were sold unbound in parts or as a small collection. Short quick stories which were often Gothic or melodramatic in nature.