Front matter
Reading edition
"Animum rege."
*** "This Collection of Stories is well chosen, and affords a fund of amusement that is cheap at the price of five shillings. By putting such a book as this into the hands of children, parents will more effectually guard their minds against weak credulity, than by grave philosophic admonition." Monthly Review, October 1814.
Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, Smithfield
H Corbould delin.t C Knight sculp.t 1814
The Haunted Beach.
APPARITIONS; OR, THE MYSTERY OF Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, DEVELOPED.
BEING A COLLECTION OF ENTERTAINING STORIES, FOUNDED ON FACT, And selected for the purpose of ERADICATING THOSE FEARS, WHICH THE IGNORANT, THE WEAK, AND THE SUPERSTITIOUS, ARE BUT TOO APT TO ENCOURAGE, FOR WANT OF PROPERLY EXAMINING INTO THE CAUSES OF SUCH ABSURD IMPOSITIONS.
BY JOSEPH TAYLOR.
SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.
London: PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. FINSBURY SQUARE.
1815.