Stevenson, Robert LouisStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886
8vo. Advertisement leaf at end. Original wrappers printed in blue and red, date on upper wrapper altered from 1885 to 1886 in pen (as often); covers a little soiled with some minor restoration work to corners, spine worn with some show through.
A first edition, first printing of this famed novella that explores the dualities of good and evil.
The premise of this Gothic masterpiece came to Stevenson in a dream. He then wrote the first draft, according to his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, in three days. It was a tremendous success, with 250,000 copies selling in the US alone by 1901.
The printed date on the upper cover is 1885, with the intended date of publication December of that year, "but when it was ready the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc, and the trade would not look at it..." (the publisher Charles Longman, quoted by Prideaux, p. 44). Publication was therefore delayed until January 1886, with the American Scribner edition coming out a few days later. Many of the covers were altered by hand to 1886, as with the present copy. Books published in wrappers in this style were known as penny dreadfuls. It "was translated into German, French and Danish; and the names of its two chief characters have passed into the common stock of proverbial allusion" (DNB).
REFERENCE:Ashley volume VI, p. 8; Beinecke 349; Gertsley 30A; Haycraft-Queen; McKay 348; Prideaux 17
Stevenson, Robert LouisStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886
8vo. Advertisement leaf at end. Original wrappers printed in blue and red, date on upper wrapper altered from 1885 to 1886 in pen (as often); covers a little soiled with some minor restoration work to corners, spine worn with some show through.
A first edition, first printing of this famed novella that explores the dualities of good and evil.
The premise of this Gothic masterpiece came to Stevenson in a dream. He then wrote the first draft, according to his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, in three days. It was a tremendous success, with 250,000 copies selling in the US alone by 1901.
The printed date on the upper cover is 1885, with the intended date of publication December of that year, "but when it was ready the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc, and the trade would not look at it..." (the publisher Charles Longman, quoted by Prideaux, p. 44). Publication was therefore delayed until January 1886, with the American Scribner edition coming out a few days later. Many of the covers were altered by hand to 1886, as with the present copy. Books published in wrappers in this style were known as penny dreadfuls. It "was translated into German, French and Danish; and the names of its two chief characters have passed into the common stock of proverbial allusion" (DNB).
REFERENCE:Ashley volume VI, p. 8; Beinecke 349; Gertsley 30A; Haycraft-Queen; McKay 348; Prideaux 17
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