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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Spottiswoode and Co. for Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 8 o. 1-page publisher's advertisement at end. Original cloth, lettered in black on front cover (spine and corners a bit worn and soiled). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Preceded by the American Scribner edition by four days. "Like Shelley's Frankenstein , this is an updating of the Faust theme which speculates on the dangers of science out of control... Stevenson's theme of the human mind fragmenting into mutually exclusive, mutually destructive bits has been treated by countless later writers" (Lilly). Ashley VI, p.8; Beinecke 349; Lilly 21. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.