[Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, third issue, half-title, light foxing, attractive antique-style half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, slipcase, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1819:55; Tymn 1-304], 8vo, for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.

⁂ 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 third issue, without Byron's name on the title, with the preliminaries reset to 23 lines and with the word "almost" in last line of p.36 missing the first letter.