Apparitions; or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, developed.

Being a collection of entertaining stories, founded on fact, and selected for the purpose of eradicating those fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious are but too apt to encourage, for want of properly examining into the causes of such absurd impositions. London : printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1815. The second edition, enlarged. Octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, a little scuffed, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in blind with gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title label, early ownership inscription to preliminary blank, engraved frontispiece, woodcut to title page, pp. xii; 13 – 242, paper flaw to exterior margin go pp. 49 – 52, a very good copy.

A guide to ghosts, spectres, haunts, apparitions, demons and other nocturnal disturbances of the occult, which are often accompanied by a rational explanation.