Shelfmark
Gp.7.12
Author
Uniform title
[Castle of Otranto. Italian]
Title
Il castello di Otranto. Storia gotica..
Publication, distribution, etc.
In Londra: : Presso Molini, Polidori, Molini e Co. Hay-Market; ed I. Edwards, Pall-Mall., 1795..
Physical description
x, [2], 253, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Anonymous. By Horace Walpole.
Note
Translated by Jean Sivrac.
Note
Half-title: 'Il castello di Otranto, stampato da T. Bensley, sotto l'ispezione di Giovanni Sivrac, A.M.'.
Note
B6 is a cancel.
Note
There is a footnote on p. viii. Variant: there is no footnote on p. viii.
Note
First edition of the first Italian translation.
Note
Frontispiece signed "Medland", first plate signed "Birrell", the rest "Birril", i.e. Andrew Birrell.
Note
The six engraved illustrations are produced after drawings by "una dama", i.e. Anne Melicent Clarke of Hitchen Priory.
Citation/references note
Hazen, Walpole, 63-64
Citation/references note
ESTC, T99857
Provenance
Front free-endpaper with inscription dated 11 July 1812 to Henriette Matilda Rawlinson from her godfather Colonel Stanley, i.e. the collector Col. Thomas Stanley.
Provenance
Black-letter bookplate of "Ellen James", tentatively identified with Ellen King James (1823-1849), the aunt of the novelist Henry James.
Binding
Contemporary brown calf binding; gold-tooled border of stylised fruit and flower motifs within thick-thin fillets; gold-tooled spine with five raised bands; spine title lettered in gilt in second compartment; double endbands; marbled endpapers.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is the first issue, on wove paper, watermarked 1794.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is variant without the footnote on p. viii.
Genre/Form
Gothic novels.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Sivrac, Jean, active 1794 - 1795 translator.
Added entry--name
Birrell, Andrew engraver.
Added entry--name
Clarke, Anne Millicent, 1767 - 1808 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Stanley, Thomas, 1749 - 1818 former owner.
Added entry--name
Molini, Polidori, Molini & Co. bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
ita eng
Identifier
B51324