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RADCLIFFE, Ann (1764-1823)

Lot 124
13.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1363018
Lot 124 | RADCLIFFE, Ann (1764-1823)
Estimate value
£ 1 200 – 1 800
RADCLIFFE, Ann (1764-1823)
The Mysteries of Udolpho. London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794.
First edition of a milestone in the history of the Gothic novel. The atmosphere of hidden threat is set by the epigraph on the title pages: ‘Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns’. Radcliffe published five novels in her lifetime; Udolpho is generally agreed to be her best work, and a landmark of Gothic Horror. Certainly it brought her enormous fame. The reading public’s passion for Radcliffe became a key device in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Catherine Morland, the heroine of the novel, famously falls too much under the spell of Gothic Horror, and Radcliffe in particular: 'While I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable'. Block p. 193; Summers pp. 135 &. 434; Rothschild II. 1701.

4 volumes, octavo (170 x 105mm). (Lacking the half-titles, tear to lower outer corner of E6 in vol. I just touching a letter on verso, closed tears in a few margins, light spotting and toning.) Contemporary black half morocco over blue marbled paper sides (upper joint of vol. I cracked, joints rubbed, edges worn, sides rubbed); black morocco backed folding cases. Provenance: Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate).
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