Interviews in the realms of death: or, Dialogues of the dead : between several great personages deceas'd.

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Publication InfoLondon [England] : printed by W. Hunter, for J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-Luce over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street; R. Ford, at the Angel in the Poultry; and J. Graves, near White's Chocolate-House, St. James's, <1718>
Descriptionvolumes, plates : illustrations, portraits, tables ; 4⁰.
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Other author/creatorFassmann, 1683-1744, author.
Other author/creatorHooke, John, active 1714-1730, publisher.
Other author/creator[Hunter, W.], bookseller.
Other author/creatorFord, Richard, -1738, bookseller.
Other author/creatorGraves, J., bookseller.
Uniform titleGespräche in dem Reiche derer Todten. Interviews 1-3. English.
Variant title Interviews in the realms of death
Portion of title Dialogues of the dead
Caption title Interviews in the realms of death, or Elysian fields
Variant title Subsequent title pages vary, lacking alternative title and with first word preceded by issue number: ... Interview in the realms of death [no. 2-<3>]
FrequencyMonthly
General note"Each interview concludes with ... political reflections on the present news, ... from ... 1718, when the first interview was publish'd."
General noteOriginal work attributed to David Fassmann.
General noteChief title repeated as caption; extended caption title varies.
General noteTitle followed by description of contents and names of persons interviewed.
General noteImprints lack dates; estimated year of publication from preface of interview no. 1.
General noteThird interview imprint reads in part: "printed for J. Hooke" etc.
General noteAbove imprint: "Written originally in High Dutch."
General notePrice follows imprint: Price 1s. 6d.
General noteTitle page of no. 1: "To be continu'd monthly"; this statement does not appear on later issues. Third interview has a note from the translator: "he cannot publish the work monthly, as he at first intended, it being very laborious."
General noteFrontis. plates show two dead interviewees conversing.
General notePreface followed by chronological table of events in the lifetimes of the interviewees and list of the projected interviews.
General noteFirst two interviews have continuous register and pagination; third number has separate register and pagination.
General noteLast issue seen: The third interview. No more known to have been translated into English.
General noteIncludes imagined dialogues between rulers and important people with political or military influence, with events of each person's life and comments on the relationships to contemporary events in England. Persons interviewed include: Leopold, Roman emperor, vs. Louis XIV of France; Charles V, Roman emperor, vs. Francis I of France; Charles I, of Great Britain, vs. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Proposed subjects include notables such as: James II and James, Duke of Monmouth; Cleopatra and the Duc de Luxembourg; Madame de Maintenon and her husband, M. Scarron; and Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin of France.
General noteReproduction of original from the British Library.
References NCBEL, II:1277
References English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP6553.
Special numberingIssues lack chronological designation or dates.
Reproduction noteJoyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Title history noteTranslation of: Gespräche in dem Reiche derer Todten, originally published in Leipzig between 1718 and 1739, as 240 interviews. Thirty-eight titles from the original series, published between 1718-1721, are listed in the prefaces to the first two interviews of this edition.
Genre/formPeriodicals England 18th century.