Hieroglyphic Tales

Overview:

  • Title: Hieroglyphic Tales
  • Author: Horace Walpole
  • Year: 1982
  • Publisher: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
  • Pages: xv+ix+50+[5]
  • Binding: unknown
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Hieroglyphic Tales
  • Notes:
      New edition containing facsimile reprint of 1st ed. Data primarily from digital copy at Archive.org (above)
    • No ISBN
    • Numbered pages: iii-xv, iv-ix, 2-50 Facsimile: 31 leaves, from 1785 title leaf p[i-ii] to one-page Postscript p[51]
    • Augustan Reprint Society Publications 212–213 Augustan Reprint Society Publications, vol 28 no 6 (OCLC 219947976) "The Augustan Reprint Society" is named on front cover and as title page header and some libraries report ARS as publisher.
    • Beside Gross's "Introducion" with endnotes, p.iii-xiii, and the additional story appended, p[53-55], new contents include "Manuscript notes from Walpole's copy of the first edition, now in the British Library [...]", p. xiv, a transcript of eight notes on Tales I, III, IV, V by page and line number.