APPARITIONS; A NEW THEORY, AND HARTSORE HALL, A GHOSTLY ADVENTURE ... Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. London: Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange; Bosworth & Harrison, 215, Regent St., 1856. Octavo, pp. [i-iiii] iv [v] vi [7] 8-76, original flexible brown cloth, front panel lettered in gold and ruled in blind, yellow coated endpapers. Second edition, revised and enlarged. This is an enlarged edition of a 44-page investigation of spiritualism first published in 1856. An "apologia for spiritualism, followed by 'Hartsore Hall,' a brief phantasmagorical piece decorated with residual Gothicism." - Robert Knowlton. The author's note to the second edition begins "The hostile reception given by the majority of reviewers to the "First Edition of this Essay was exactly what I anticipated" Not listed in the standard fantasy checklists. Lower rear corner tip dog-eared, a very good copy. Rare. (#171262).
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"Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged" on title page.