WALPOLE, Horatio (sous le pseud. de MURALTO, Onuphrio).-Jeffery's edition of The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic story. Translated by William Marshal [...]. A new edition. London, printed by Cooper and Graham, and sold by the publisher [Edward Jeffery],...
Estimation :
400 / 500
Description
1796. In-8° : front.-xvi-152 pp.; 6 pl. (slightly browned, some foxing, marginal dampstains at pp. 81-84 and one plate). 19th Century English binding (c. 1810) : calf, boards decorated in the Empire style with various frames composed of blind and gilt fillets and roll-stamps (one large and one in Greek style) encircling a sprinkled calf medallion with a central gilt vase, flat spine decorated with gilt lyres repeated and with gilt roll-stamps (one in Greek style), brown marbled paper flyleaves, gilt edges (upper joint partly split, slightly rubbed with small lacks, corners very dulled).
First edition published by Edward Jeffery of this first "Gothic novel" (1st ed. : 1764). Nicely illustrated with 7 engravings coloured with an inking-page (including the frontispiece), encircled by a gilt roll-stamp, by O. Birrel taken from the first Italian illustrated edition published in London by Molini in 1795. Copy on large paper on vellum paper Whitman and with wide margins, sold "Price One Pound Seven Schillings in Boards, with coloured Plates and Borders" (cfr title-page). • Very nice binding, unfortunately soiled, with a fore-edge painting elegantly executed under golding figuring the panorama of a town with a cathedral or abbey with two towers, churches, a mill with a wheel and constructions along a river (i.e. London ?). ^ Première édition donnée par Ed. Jeffery, illustrée de 7 gravures à la poupée (front. inclus). Ex. en grand papier sur vélin Whitman à grandes marges. Rel. anglaise de c. 1810 décorée dans le style Empire avec gouttière finement peinte sous or représentant le panorama d'une ville, notamment avec une cathédrale ou une abbaye (i.e. Londres ?) (lég. bruni, rel. défraìchie).
First edition published by Edward Jeffery of this first "Gothic novel" (1st ed. : 1764). Nicely illustrated with 7 engravings coloured with an inking-page (including the frontispiece), encircled by a gilt roll-stamp, by O. Birrel taken from the first Italian illustrated edition published in London by Molini in 1795. Copy on large paper on vellum paper Whitman and with wide margins, sold "Price One Pound Seven Schillings in Boards, with coloured Plates and Borders" (cfr title-page). • Very nice binding, unfortunately soiled, with a fore-edge painting elegantly executed under golding figuring the panorama of a town with a cathedral or abbey with two towers, churches, a mill with a wheel and constructions along a river (i.e. London ?). ^ Première édition donnée par Ed. Jeffery, illustrée de 7 gravures à la poupée (front. inclus). Ex. en grand papier sur vélin Whitman à grandes marges. Rel. anglaise de c. 1810 décorée dans le style Empire avec gouttière finement peinte sous or représentant le panorama d'une ville, notamment avec une cathédrale ou une abbaye (i.e. Londres ?) (lég. bruni, rel. défraìchie).
