ID 627624
Lot 135 | The Castle of Otranto
Valeur estimée
$ 5 000 – 8 000
Newton copy of the first edition of this mock tale of medieval horror. Inspired by a nightmare suffered at Walpole's Gothic Revival estate, Strawberry Hill, the novel purports to be a translation of a 16th-century Neapolitan manuscript by the fictional "Onuphrio Muralto." Its runaway success initiated the vogue for Gothic romances and furnished the machinery for a genre of fiction later transferred so successfully to cinema. The poet Thomas Gray told Walpole that it made "some of us cry a little." Hazen, Walpole 17; Rothschild 2491.
Octavo (169 x 107mm). (Some light spotting). Contemporary calf (joints split but holding); chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Thomas Philip, Earl de Gray (1781-1859; bookplate) – Alfred Edward Newton (1864-1940, American bibliophile; bookplate).
| Artiste: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Crayon |
| Artiste: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Crayon |
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