Scarce History of Vampirism
The Vampire in Europe
Notes: This book "deals with the subject from a historical point of view and presents the evidence which gave rise to the theories. This evidence, drawn from little-known authors, musty chronicles, and the obscurer occultists, is in many cases derived from official sources, civil and ecclesiastical.... Particular attention is paid to the alleged irritation which gave rise to so much literature in the early eighteenth century, while the curious situation in modern Greece is fully discussed"—dust jacket.
About the author, Bleiler wrote, "British bibliographer, literary scholar, believing student of magic and related phenomena... Very learned student of Renaissance witchcraft, magic, superstitions"—Guide to Supernatural Fiction.
330 pages plus 8 plates.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing with 1929 on the title page and no indication of later printings). A very good copy, a bit foxed inside, in a very good, somewhat spine-darkened dust jacket with a row of small spots along the outer edge of the front panel. Jacket priced at 15s. on the spine. Scarce in a dust jacket.
Publication: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1929.
Item No: #362674
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