[Rarebooks] FS: On ghosts, hobgoblins and haunted houses. London: 1814

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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 Ridiculous Fears, Which 
the Ignorant, the Weak, and the Superstitious, Are But Too Apt to Encourage for 
Want of Properly Examining Into the Causes of Such Absurd Impositions. 
London: Printed by Macdonald and Son for Lackington, Allen, and Co. 1814. First 
edition. 12mo. 223pp. Plus (3)pp. publisher’s ads. Engraved frontispiece. Cont. 
polished calf, gilt tooled spine, outer hinges cracked but still holding 
soundly. Bookplate on recto of the frontispiece. Very scarce.     $500.00 (trade 
discount allowed)

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