The Vampyre • Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula • Christopher Frayling

Vampyres Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula. The first version of this hardback published in 1978. with black and white illustrations by Christopher Frayling.

A comprehensive anthology of vampire stories, all dating from the most creative period in the development of the Vampire Count and the Fatal Woman as figures in European fantasy literature - between Lord Byron and Bram Stoker.

• A few scattered black and white illustrations.
• Ex library book - showing some marks and pencil notes inside, with a detached spine.

Sir Christopher Frayling is Rector and Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of Vampyres, The Face of Tutankhamun, Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death, and Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design

• Used secondhand hardback book.
  
• First edition Hardcover with dust jacket. 
• Published by Victor Gollancz, 1978.
• Illustrated.
  
• Folklore & Mythology, History, Horror
• Pages 336.
  
• In wounded used condition, some foxing and tanning to edges and pages with a few marks inside and pencilled comments. The spine has come away, see pics.