The monk: a romance. In three volumes. ...
Lewis, M. G.(Matthew Gregory),1775-1818.
London : printed for J. Bell,
M.DCC.XCVI [1797]
Actually the third edition, third issue, second state; the titlepage is a cancel (with vertical chain lines); in this state the final "I" of the imprint date has been scraped away by the publisher to simulate the first edition; a variant state r
Reproduction of original from the Harvard University Houghton Library.
ESTC
Todd, W. B. 'The early editions and issues of The monk, with a bibliography'. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, vol.,