[Utterson (Sarah Elizabeth, editor and translator)] Tales of the Dead, first edition, lacking half-title, light foxing and browning throughout, ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, modern half calf, spine gilt in compartments, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1813:60; not in Summers], 8vo, [by S. Hamilton] for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813.

⁂ First edition of this rare collection, partly a translation of the French Fantasmagoriana (itself allegedly a translation from the German) though including an original work by Utterson, "The Storm" as the fifth story. Fantasmagoriana was famously read by Byron, the Shelleys and Polidori on the night that engendered Frankenstein and The Vampire. On publication this collection received several positive reviews from Francis Palgrave and others, with Utterson's original contribution in particular singled out for praise.