The spectre mother, or, The haunted tower

frontispiece and title page

  • Author: Mitchell, John (Allegorist)
  • Title: The spectre mother, or, The haunted tower / by the author of Midnight horrors, Female pilgrim, &c.
  • Publication: London : Printed & sold by Dean & Munday, 35, Threadneedle Street, [between 1810 and 1814]

Catalog Record

763 810 M681

Acquired April 2023

The spectres, or, Lord Oswald and Lady Rosa

colored frontispiece and printed title page

  • Author: Wilkinson, Sarah Scudgell, 1779-1831, author
  • Title: The spectres, or, Lord Oswald and Lady Rosa : including an account of the Marchioness of Civetti, who was basely consigned to a dungeon beneath her castle, by her eldest son, whose cruel avarice plunged him into the commission of the worst of crimes, that stain the annals of the human race : an original romantic tale / by Sarah Wilkinson.
  • Publication: London : Printed and published by J. Fairburn, 110, Minories, [1814?]

Catalog Record

763 814 W687

Acquired April 2023

The monk : a romance in three volumes

Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818

The monk : a romance in three volumes / by M.G. Lewis.

A new edition with plates.

Published: Paris : Printed for Theophilus Barrois, Junior, bookseller, No. 5 Quay Voltaire, MDCCCVII [1807]

56 L58 807 Copy 1

Bound in one vol., uncut, without frontispieces; in plain brown paper wrapper with paper spine label; also with 8 p. of preliminary publisher’s advertisments and 2 p. at end. For further information, consult library staff.

Title Page [Copy 1]: The monk : a romance in three volumes 56 L58 807 Copy 2

In 3 vols., with original combed paper wrappers and printed spine labels. Publishers’ advertisements on final pages of v.2 and v.3.

Frontispiece [Copy 2 Vol. 1]: The monk : a romance in three volumes First published 1796 in London by J. Bell.

Frontispiece [Copy 2, Vol. 2]: The monk : a romance in three volumes Todd, W. B. ’The early editions and issues of The monk, with a bibliography’. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v.II, p. 22

Frontispiece [Copy 2, Vol. 3]: The monk: a romance in three actsSubjects (Library of Congress): Man–woman relationships–Fiction; Monks–Fiction; Madrid (Spain)–Fiction.

Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: October, 2010