SECRETS OF THE CLOISTER. FROM DOCUMENTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE FAMILY OF THE LATE FATHER F ---

by Father F. ---, Bracebridge Hemyng

$750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, n.d. 1869 . 16mo, pp. 1-6 1 2-149 150: blank , rebound in quarter cloth and marbled boards. First edition. A shilling shocker issued in August 1869 in paper wrappers only. A collection of seven sensational stories supposedly drawn from a series of confessions discovered among the papers of a deceased Catholic priest. The stories feature typical Victorian tropes, such as the

• Binding: Wrappers

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