1820 Drake WINTER NIGHTS TALES 2 vols 1st GOTHIC GHOST on eBay (end time 21-Dec-09 00:27:41 GMT)

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Format:	Hardback	Special Attributes:	1st Edition
Subject:	Fiction & Literature	Printing Year:	1820
Sub-Category:	Fiction		Horror

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1820 Drake WINTER NIGHTS TALES 2 vols 1st GOTHIC GHOST

DRAKE, Nathan, M.D. (1766-1836).

WINTER NIGHTS; Or, Fire-side Lucubrations. In Two Volumes.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 1820.

First edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original drab blue boards with tan board spines, printed paper labels on spines. 295 + 300 pp. Pages mostly uncut throughout. Corners a bit bruised, boards slightly soiled, spine labels somewhat chipped. A very go od clean set, extremely scarce in the original boards. ¶ Gothic Fiction, Early Detective. Miscellany of essays, verse and a long story: 'Kirton Priory, or the Burtons and Bellerdistons; a Tale of the Seventeenth Century'; a ghost story rationalised in terms of secret passages, sliding panels et al. Strictly speaking, not a supernatural novel, but rather a very early prototype of the detective story. "The Burtons are a pro-Cromwell family who have been awarded Kirton Priory in return for their efforts. They are curious as to what happened to the previous owners, and make a determined effort, by enquiry among the locals and other means, to discover their fate. Eventually, they learn that their predecessors are still living within the house , using the secret passages and rooms, and are in fact the "ghosts" which are observed on occassion." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy (1980).

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