DIOGENES OF LONDON AND OTHER FANTASIES AND SKETCHES

by Watson, Marriott

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Methuen and Co., 1893. Octavo, pp. i-vii viii 1 2-232, publisher's purple cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Thirty-two short stories. Mixed collection, mostly contes cruels in an archaic setting, also 'The Devil of the Marsh,' a classic horror tale of a paludal Circe. - Robert Knowlton. The Brazen Cross is a supernatural tale

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