Vikram and the vampire or tales of Hindu devilry ... with thirty-three illustrations

by Ernest Griset by Richard F. Burton

$425 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870. First edition, Penzer's second issue binding, small 8vo, pp. xxiv, 319; 15 plates, other illustrations in the text; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper cover and spine; top of spine chipped level with text block; all else very good. Penzer, pp. 80-82: The date of the original collection of the vampire tales is unknown. They were certainly written in Sanskrit some time anterior to 1070 ...

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