1826 Rare Gothic Book - The Castle of Otranto, (Bound with) The Old English Baron
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Author : Horace Walpole & Clara Reeve.
Title : The Old English Baron And The Castle of Otranto, (2 volumes in one).
Publisher : London, C. and J. Rivington & All., 1826.
Language : Text in English
Size : 5 " X 3 "
Pages : xvi-153, 116 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good original Gothic full leather binding (hinges fine, slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining, gift note of a previous owner on first endpaper).
Illustrations : Nicely illustrated with one engraved title page and one frontis illustration.
The book : Rare and attractive edition of The Castle of Otranto, (Bound with) The Old English Baron Two major Gothic Stories!
The authors: Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes.
Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777). She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, then an unusual language for a woman to learn.