[Maturin (Charles Robert)], "Dennis Jasper Murphy". Fatal Revenge; Or, The Family of Montorio. A Romance, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 2 lacking final blank f. and rear endpaper, vol. 3 lacking final advertisement f. and with front free endpaper laid onto pastedown, foxing and occasional light browning, some light creasing, some marking or staining to margins, ink and pencil ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, bumping to corners, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, preserved in custom calf-backed drop-back box with gilt spines, [Sadleir, 1664; Summers p.31; Tymn 1-239; Wolff 4648], 12mo, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

⁂ Maturin's scarce first novel, a typically convoluted Gothic work that nevertheless brought him to the attention of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron.