Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[WALPOLE, HORACE.] The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story. xvi, 200 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped, joints partly cracked; 19th-century owner's inscription on title verso. London: William Bathoe and Thomas Lownds, 1765

Additional Details

Second edition, with typographical errors corrected and preface added containing a lengthy attack on Voltaire. Hazen (Walpole), pages 54-55.