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[WALPOLE, HORACE.] The Castle of Otranto... Sixth Edition. Engraved frontispiece (foxed in margins, lightly offsetting onto title). [6] (of [8]),

[WALPOLE, HORACE.] The Castle of Otranto... Sixth Edition. Engraved frontispiece (foxed in margins, lightly offsetting onto title). [6] (of [8]), xxxii, 245 pages, including half-title; lacks initial and final blank. Large 8vo, 243x165 mm, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked retaining attractively gilt original backstrip; bookplates. wide-margined copy. Parma: Printed by Bodoni for J. Edwards, London, 1791

  • Notes: first bodoni edition. Hazen's second state of the title and state C of the frontispiece. Without the 6 engraved plates published in 1793 by E. & S. Harding and found in some copies of this edition. Brooks 420 ("libro superbamente stampato"); Hazen (Walpole), pages 56-63.

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