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Hieroglyphic Tales

Horace Walpole

First published 1926
Publisher Elkin Mathews
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 85


The story 'The Bird's Nest' was added to this collection in the 1982 edition. SFE (in biographical entry by Mike Ashley) describes the 1982 as "rev[ised] with addition of a previously uncollected story" and edited by Kenneth W. Gross. The British Library calls it a facsimile of the 1785 (ix+50 pages implied) with introduction by Kenneth W. Gross, {{BL|004078887}}.


WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports as Genre: "Private press books (Publishing) Officina Bodoni" and as Contents story titles fashioned such as: "Tale VI: A true love story" Vital notes include: "Of this edition 250 copies have been printed by hand in autumn 1926 ..." "... The text here followed is that of the first edition. Some notes, written by Horace Walpole in his copy of the first-sheets of the first edition, now in the British museum, have been added."

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Hieroglyphic Tales 1974 Folcroft Library Editions Hardcover Collection 85
Hieroglyphic Tales 1978 Norwood Editions Hardcover Collection 85
Hieroglyphic Tales Cover 1982 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Unknown Collection xv+ix+50+[5]
Hieroglyphic Tales 1993 AMS Press Hardcover Collection xv+ix+50+[5]
Hieroglyphic Tales Cover 1993 Mercury House Trade Paperback Collection Jill McElmurry xxiv+89
Hieroglyphic Tales 2004 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 14098
Hieroglyphic Tales Cover 2005 Alan Rodgers Books Hardcover Collection
Hieroglyphic Tales Cover 2006 Alan Rodgers Books Trade Paperback Collection Jean-Léon Gérôme 108
Hieroglyphic Tales Cover 2010 Pallas Athene Trade Paperback Collection 77