Tales of wonder / written and collected by M.G. Lewis, esq., M. P., author of The monk, Castle Spectre, Love of gain, &c. ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II].

German

Armorial bookplate, with motto "Deo non armis fido" and signed "Silvester sc., 27 Strand, on front paste-down of both volumes: "John Morse" (this is likely the individual of that name [1776-1844] who lived at Abbotts Wooton in Dorset, formerly of Sprowston Hall and Bagthrope in Norfolk, and who died at Injonville near Havre); inscription at head of both title pages (almost entirely obliterated); brief marginal note on leaf I5r; brief marginal note in pencil at foot of leaf 2F2v; small pencil drawing of a tree in margin of leaf 2H7r; inscription at head of recto of front free end-paper in volume 1: "Herbert G. Norman", with "1945" inscribed in pencil below; small slip of paper with typewritten item description (photocopy?) from an American bookseller found in volume 1 and now available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 197; inscription (likely by the same bookseller) in pencil on bookplate in volume 1: "$25."; various booksellers' inscriptions in pencil on endleaves of both volumes (some partially erased).

Bound uniformly in full contemporary calf, rebacked in newer calf with original spine laid over; spine and outer and inner edges of boards tooled in gilt; spine tooled in gilt; two black spine labels lettered in gilt.