THE STANLEY TALES, ORIGINAL AND SELECT. Chiefly Collected

by the Late Ambrose Marten, of Stanley Priory, Teesdale by Ambrose Marten

$500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Published by W. Morgan, etc., 1826; 1827. 12mo, five volumes, inserted frontispiece in each volume, nineteenth-century three-quarter leather and boards. First edition. The first five of the six volumes of this early nineteenth century anthology of short stories, containing supernatural fiction and quite a few crime and detection stories. Many of the stories are reprinted from earlier sources ... A very rare

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