[Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, third issue, lacking half-title, occasional light soiling, Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819, bound with 2 others 19th century, together 3 works in 1 vol., book-label of J.O. Edwards and small binder's ticket to front pastedown, some light browning and damp-staining to second and third works, contemporary half calf, morocco spine label lettered "Vampyre" in gilt, quite worn in places, rubbed, 8vo.

⁂ The circumstances surrounding the birth of this work, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, during a night of ghost-story telling with Byron and friends is well documented. This is the third issue, without Byron's name on the title, with the preliminaries reset to 23 lines and the word "almost" in the last line of p.36 missing the first letter. The two other works are Don Pedro, Kind of Castile by Lord Porchester (1828) and The Battle of Talavera, tenth edition (1816).