SIXPENNY TRACTS, HUMOUR AND HORROR -- School Exercises. 1761. The Hat. The Peruke. The Breeches. [Ramsgate: Burgess printer], [c. 1800]. The three poems were presumably composed in 1761. [Not in COPAC or OCLC] – [DIBDIN, Thomas]. The Cabinet: A Comic Opera. Dublin: Thomas Burnside, 1802 -- The Nun or Memoirs of Angelique. London: Tegg and Castleman, [1803]. Engraved frontispiece. Copies at BL, New York Public Library and Princeton – Fun and Frolic: or A Comic Journal of Wit. [London]: A. Kemmish, 1804. Engraved frontispiece. (A few spots and stains.) OCLC records one copy at the Houghton Library, Harvard – PASQUIN, Anthony (pseudonym). Julia of Elmwood or The Curate’s Daughter. London: Minerva Press for Lane and Newman, 1804. Engraved frontispiece. Based on McMillan's History of Julia. 2 copies only in OCLC – [SARRET, Victor Jules]. Koenigsmark the Robber, or The Terror of Bohemia. London: A. Kemmish for J. Ker, [1802?]. Engraved frontispiece. (Some spots and stains.) No exact parallel in COPAC -- The Life of Samuel Matthews, the Norwood Hermit. London: Harrild and Billing, [1803?]. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut. (Frontispiece and title browned, some spotting.) 3 copies in COPAC – WILKINSON, Sarah Scudgell. Monkcliffe Abbey, A Tale of the Fifteenth Century. London: Kaygill, [1803]. Engraved frontispiece, title vignette. One recorded copy of this first edition at University Library, Cambridge. Other editions followed in 1805? and 1807. Together 8 works in one volume, the first 8°, the others 12° (177 x 102mm). Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco (extremities worn, lacks free endpapers). Provenance: Henry Layward (bookplate). Many tracts carry the price of sixpence, and reveal the huge public appetite for even a shortened form of the gothic tale.