English writer and physician (1795–1821)

Poor Polidori : a critical biography of the author of The vampire / D.L. Macdonald.

The vampyre ; and, Ernestus Berchtold, or, The modern Oedipus : collected fiction of John William Polidori / edited and introduced by D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf.

Ximenes, The wreath, and other poems / By J.W. Polidori.

Disputatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de morbo, oneirodynia dicto, complectens / [John William Polidori].

Sketches illustrative of the manners and costumes of France, Switzerland, and Italy / By R. Bridgens.

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John William Polidori

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Ximenes, The wreath, and other poems / By J.W. Polidori.

Disputatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de morbo, oneirodynia dicto, complectens / [John William Polidori].

Sketches illustrative of the manners and costumes of France, Switzerland, and Italy / By R. Bridgens.