Lot 420
[Walpole (Horace)] The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story, sixth edition, Parma, by Bodoni, for J Edwards, 1791.
Hammer Price: £950
Description
[Walpole (Horace)] The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshall, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, sixth edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, wide margins, light finger-soiling, 2b4 verso with piece of gilt tooling affixed to margin, early 19th century ink gift inscription to endpaper, contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, triple gilt ruled borders, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lozenges, a little rubbed and scuffed, Greek key border inner dentelles, g.e., 4to, Parma, by Bodoni, for J Edwards, 1791.
⁂ The handsome first Parma edition, one of 300 copies and often attractively bound.
Description
[Walpole (Horace)] The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshall, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, sixth edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, wide margins, light finger-soiling, 2b4 verso with piece of gilt tooling affixed to margin, early 19th century ink gift inscription to endpaper, contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, triple gilt ruled borders, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lozenges, a little rubbed and scuffed, Greek key border inner dentelles, g.e., 4to, Parma, by Bodoni, for J Edwards, 1791.
⁂ The handsome first Parma edition, one of 300 copies and often attractively bound.