[?BRYER, Henry] and/or {?W., J.}.
EIGHT HISTORICAL TALES, CURIOUS AND INSTRUCTIVE: I. THE UNFORTUNATE DAMASCENES. II. JETZER. III. ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM. IV. THE GOWRIE CONSPIRACY. V. MASANIELLO. VI. THE CAMPDEN WONDER. VII. THE MYSTERIOUS LETTERS. VIII. IVAN THE THIRD.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Churchyard, by H. Bryer, Bridewell Hospital, Bridge Street, 1801.
viii, 284p, ill., map. 12mo. 4s 6d (CR).
CR 2nd ser. 35: 113 (May 1802); WSW I: 36.
BL 12612.c.2; ECB 82; NSTC T112 (BI E, O).

Notes. Dedication ‘To that Kind Relative, Who Watched over his Helpless Youth with Paternal Care.’ ‘Prefatory Invitation’, signed ‘J. W.’, notes: ‘A few of these [fabled romances] are offered to your perusal; be persuaded to turn awhile from the artful fictions of the novel-writer to the volume before you’ (p. v). List of ‘Tales and Authorities’, pp. vii–viii. ‘The Unfortunate Damascenes’, pp. [1]–62; ‘Jetzer’, pp. 63–84; ‘Arden of Faversham’, pp. 85–130; ‘The Gowrie Conspiracy’, pp. 131–58; ‘Masaniello’, pp. [159]–190; ‘The Campden Wonder’, pp. 191–225; ‘The Mysterious Letters’, pp. 226–42; ‘Ivan the Third’, pp. [243]–284. ECB lists under Bryer (H.), this probably relating to Henry Bryer, the printer, who was associated with a number of historical works at this period, including A Lilliputian History of England, from the Norman Conquest (1806). BLC, following signature, gives as ‘[By J. W.]’