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TAYLOR (Joseph).

Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, Developed. Being a Collection of Entertaining Stories, Founded on Fact, and Selected for the Purpose of Eradicating those Fears, Which the Ignorant, the Weak...

London, printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. 1815. Second edition, enlarged. Original cloth-backed drab boards, paper label. 8vo. pp. 242. First published in 1814. The introduction and essay attempt to provide a rational explanation for all the supernatural happenings in the stories that follow, five of which are in verse. Frontispiece and vignette on title-page. Neatly rebacked, preserving the original spine, new endpapers, some foxing throughout.

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