The necromancer, a German story, or, Tale of the Black Forest
Subtitle: founded on facts
By: translated from the German of Lawrence Flammenberg, by Peter Teuthold
Publisher: Printed by Brett Smith, no. 38, Mary-Street
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Subjects: Fiction
Other titles: Necromancer; Tale of the Black Forest
Work titles: Geisterbanner
Notes: Translation of: Der Geisterbanner.

Lawrence Flammenberg = Carl Friedrich Kahlert.

One of the seven "horrid novels" listed in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. See Sadleir, Michael. The Northanger novels : a footnote to Jane Austen, (Oxford, 1927).

Signatures: v.1: A-F¹² G⁸; v. 2: A-G¹² H².

Pagination: v. 1: 160 pages; v. 2: 172 pages

English short title catalogue, N41767

Summers, M. Gothic bibliography, page 442

English novel, 1770-1829, 1794:34

Frank, Frederick S. The first Gothics, number 209

Contemporary ownership signature on t.p.: Caroline D[illegible]; inscription in the same hand on front paste-down, dated July 13th, 1861.

2 v. bound in 1, in contemporary tree calf; spine ruled in gilt, with red lettering-piece.