| Other author/creator | Fassmann, 1683-1744, author. |
| Other author/creator | Hooke, John, active 1714-1730, publisher. |
| Other author/creator | [Hunter, W.], bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Ford, Richard, -1738, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Graves, J., bookseller. |
| Uniform title | Gespräche 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>] |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| General note | "Each interview concludes with ... political reflections on the present news, ... from ... 1718, when the first interview was publish'd." |
| General note | Original work attributed to David Fassmann. |
| General note | Chief title repeated as caption; extended caption title varies. |
| General note | Title followed by description of contents and names of persons interviewed. |
| General note | Imprints lack dates; estimated year of publication from preface of interview no. 1. |
| General note | Third interview imprint reads in part: "printed for J. Hooke" etc. |
| General note | Above imprint: "Written originally in High Dutch." |
| General note | Price follows imprint: Price 1s. 6d. |
| General note | Title 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 note | Frontis. plates show two dead interviewees conversing. |
| General note | Preface followed by chronological table of events in the lifetimes of the interviewees and list of the projected interviews. |
| General note | First two interviews have continuous register and pagination; third number has separate register and pagination. |
| General note | Last issue seen: The third interview. No more known to have been translated into English. |
| General note | Includes 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 note | Reproduction of original from the British Library. |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1277 |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP6553. |
| Special numbering | Issues lack chronological designation or dates. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements |
| Title history note | Translation 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/form | Periodicals England 18th century. |