The Castle of Otranto, A Story

by Horace Walpole, William Marshall from the Original Italian

$23,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, 1765. First edition. A handsome copy of Walpole's gothic masterpiece. Octavo 104 x 171 mm. , collating complete: A4 , B8-N8, O4 viii, 200 pp. Bound in full green morocco by Riviere. Boards ruled in gilt, spine titled in gilt, with raised bands and decorated compartments. Elaborate gilt turn-ins and all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to the joints

• Binding: Leather

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