Shelley, Scott, Boz etc - The Library of Romance, T Noble, 1845

Shelley, Scott, Boz - The Library of Romance, T Noble, 1845

Contains 'An Actor's Death', pages 360-367, pirated from The Pickwick Papers. It originally appeared in Part II of the novel, issued in April 1836, under the title 'The Stroller's Tale'. Other contributors to The Library of Romance include Strickland, Leigh Hunt, Goethe - 'The Skeleton Dance' and 'The Erl-King', Bulwer - 'A manuscript found in a mad-house', and Mary Shelley -the supernatural short story 'Transformation' etc.  Includes Gothic, Ghost and Terror.

Original cloth in fair condition.  Stains to cloth.  Bumped and worn spine ends.  Corners bumped.  Blind stamps to cloth.  Gilt lettering to spine.  Foxing to page edges and into margins to few leaves through book.  Firm text.  Few creased rear base leaves.

Weight    330g.    Pages   436.