Weird Tales By Irish Writers; Weird Tales From The German; Weird Tales By American Writers; Weird Tales By English Writers; Weird Tales By Scottish Writers Mystery Fiction; Binding] Literature

A lovely 5 volume set, each volume by a different set of authors. The Irish volume has a frontis of Samuel Lover, 11 stories by various authors including Will Carlton, Charles Lever, Will Crofton Croker, Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Hall, J.B. O'Meara. German volume with frontis of Goethe, 7 stories, authors: Wilhelm Hauff, E.T.W.Hoffman, Frederick Schiller, Sir Walter Scott, Ludwig Tieck. American volume with frontis of Washington Irving, 9 stories, The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, The Headless Horseman by Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Gilmore Simms. English volume has frontis of Defoe, 12 stories, authors A. Steward Harrison, Charles Dickens, Defoe, Smollett, John Harwood, Edmund Yates. Scottish volume, frontis of Walter Scott, 10 stories, authors: Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Sir Walter Scott, John Wilson, Hugh Miller, Allan Cunningham, John Mackay Wilson, W. Grant Stewart. 5 vols, 16mo, each volume 256pp, green leather and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, very clean inside and out, some pages uncut.