NMLP P-037769 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Vampyre: A Tale
John William Polidori · Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London (earliest suppressed issues bear Henry Colburn's imprint) · 1819
The first Sherwood issue retains the fraudulent title-page attribution to the Right Honourable Lord Byron; the second Sherwood issue, the earliest generally obtainable, drops Byron from the title and keeps the early-state points: the preface passage on 'two sisters as the partakers of his revels,' the Frankenstein footnote, and the page 36 misprint 'lmost' for 'almost.' Later issues reset the preliminaries (preface reset from 24 to 23 lines) and remove or correct these readings
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037769 for "The Vampyre: A Tale" by John William Polidori (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037769, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).