 | Horace Walpole - 1794 - 202 pages
...CASTLE OF OTRANTO, A GOTHIC STORY. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. • JL HE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year i529. How much [boner it was written, does... | |
 | 1802 - 442 pages
...genuine. The late Earl of Orford first gave to the world his " Castle of Otranto," as having been " found in the library of an ancient catholic family, in the north of England, printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 15z9." As such it was received, and such it continued... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 328 pages
...Pes, et Caput uni Reddantur forme, HOB, PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 1HE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the North of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written, does... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 pages
...Fes, et Caput uiii Reddantur forme. HOB. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 1HE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the North of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written, does... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - 418 pages
...conclusion grand, tragical, and affecting." PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 pages
...conclusion grand, tragical, and affecting." PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. TEE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does... | |
 | John Ross Dix - Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770 - 1837 - 368 pages
...Castle of Otranto," the production of his riper years, in which he solemnly asserts that it was found in the " library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England, and was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." In the second edition, the honourable... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 172 pages
...black letter, at Naples, in 1529, and that the copy from which the translation had been made was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the North of England: The egotism of this preface, and the promise which it contained, that if the work were successful the original... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 528 pages
...was the author of the " Castle of Otranto," in the preface to which work it is stated to have been discovered " in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England, and printed at Naples in the black letter, in the year 1529 ;" assuming, in fact, to be a translation... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1842 - 492 pages
...was the author of the " Castle of Otranto," in ths preface to which work it is stated to have been discovered "in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England, and printed at Naples in the black letter, in the year 1529 ;" assuming, in fact, to be a translation... | |
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THE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. 
