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BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890). Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. 8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece and 14 inserted plates and numerous intertextual illustrations by Ernest Griset. xxiv, [1]-319, [1, blank] pp. With half-title. Publisher’s red cloth over beveled boards, front board decoratively stamped in black and red, rear board stamped in blind, finely rebacked in modern red morocco, spine ruled in black and gilt and lettered in gilt, two raised bands, original brown endleaves preserved (hinges repaired, some wear, soiling to boards, endleaves soiled and scuffed, embossed stamp of W. H. Smith (bookseller) London on ffep, some occasional soiling, foxing in text). Very good. FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE BINDING of Burton’s translation of these 11 Hindu fairy tales told by a demon (a “Baital, “a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies…” Bleiler 1978).