[WALPOLE, Horace, fourth earl of Orford (1717-97)]. The Castle of Otranto, A Story. London: Thomas Lowndes, 1765. 8° (167 x 99mm). (Heavy soiling to title and verso of final leaf, preliminaries spotted.) Contemporary speckled calf, covers ruled in gilt and blind with acorn tool at corners (rebacked). Provenance: H.H.H. (initials beneath Latin poem on endpaper).
The RARE FIRST EDITION of Walpole's 'Gothic Story', as it was subtitled in later editions, the enormously influential prototype of he Gothick novel and progenitor of a thousand spine-chillers. Hazen 17; Rothschild 2491; PMM 211.
[WALPOLE, Horace, fourth earl of Orford (1717-97)]. The Castle of Otranto, A Story. London: Thomas Lowndes, 1765. 8° (167 x 99mm). (Heavy soiling to title and verso of final leaf, preliminaries spotted.) Contemporary speckled calf, covers ruled in gilt and blind with acorn tool at corners (rebacked). Provenance: H.H.H. (initials beneath Latin poem on endpaper).
The RARE FIRST EDITION of Walpole's 'Gothic Story', as it was subtitled in later editions, the enormously influential prototype of he Gothick novel and progenitor of a thousand spine-chillers. Hazen 17; Rothschild 2491; PMM 211.
