...Let me show how this happens with a few specific references to the text: PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The following work was found in the library of an...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in...

...novel, which according to one of the conventions of sentimental novel-writing is allegedly a manuscript "found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England" and "printed at Naples in 1529") in the prefatory Sonnet to Lady Mary Coke, which was added in the...

...is conventional, as in Walpole's claim that Otranto purports to be the translation of a manuscript "found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England." In Melmoth the Wanderer, John Melmoth peruses the manuscript he has inherited, which breaks off abruptly...

...an Italian tale "printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year l529," and found only recently in the library of "an ancient Catholic family in the north of England."108 As the tale's translator and editor, Walpole embarks on several pages of antiquarian conjectures,...

...me to introduce...'. Compass: The Oxford World's Classics Magazine, no. 1, March 1998. p. 6. work] in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England'.18 We know that, by the time of the second edition. the pretence was dropped and Walpole admitted...

...first printed in Naples in 1529 in the Gothic black letter, and recently rediscovered by the translator 'in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England'.8 Walpole's Preface is a fascinating mixture of recommendation and disavowal. The story is...

...323ff.; and excerpts from Walpole's Mysterious Mother, pp. 176ff.) Preface to the First Edition (1764) The following work was found in the library of an...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in...

...de dag leggen wanneer het de bewijskracht van de tekst 12 'The followmg work was found m the hbrary of an ancient catholic family in the north of England....at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in...

...LOWNDS in Fleet-Street. M.DCC.LXV. [Title-page of the second edition] PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England.1 It was printed at Naples,2 in the black letter,3 in the year I52Q.4 How much sooner it was...

...anonymously, presenting himself in its preface as the translator of an Italian text that — "discovered in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England" and printed in Naples in 1529 — described events that happened in Italy between 1o95 and 1243 (The...