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1976 The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The uncommon first Folio Society edition.
Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since.
In the preface of the second edition, Walpole claims the novel is "an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern."
Illustrated with a frontispiece and five colour lithographs by Charles Keeping. Collated, complete.
With an introduction from Devendra P. Varma.
Condition
In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Light rubbing to back strip head and tail, with boards bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Near Fine
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