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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 8 o. Original tan printed wrappers (spine split and partly perished, a bit soiled); red cloth slipcase. Provenance : "The Scals" (bookplate in slipcase). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, wrappers issue with the "5" in the date on the front wrapper changed by hand to "6." 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.