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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Edited with an introduction by James Trainer. Octavo. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2". 153pp. plus notes. Brown cloth with gilt title in dust jacket. Crisp, clean copy. "The Old English Baron (1777): Originally published as The Champion of Virtue: A Gothic Story, this is her most famous work. Written in response to Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, it brought Gothic fiction closer to everyday realism and probability rather than pure horror. It is also noted as an influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."-wikipedia.…

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284 et 249 pages, dos lisse avec filets, motifs et titres, dorés ; toutes tranches jaunes. format : 10/6 cm. Mors inférieur fendu sur 1 cm. en pied du dernier plat ; très faibles et rares rousseurs en pages liminaires, sinon bonne reliure et intérieur très frais ; bon état. relié, plein cuir marron de l'époque.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original engraving with name printed underneath, showing considerable detail. Very attractive. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a splendid original antique portrait of a distinguished personage. Undated - circa 1860.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair condition. First or Early American edition. New York: Owen Phelan, 1834. First or Early American edition. 1834. Fair condition. Light scattered foxing. Most of black leather spine label has perished. Chip at top of spine. Evidence of "bio-predation" (some creature has gnawed along one edge of the leather cover -- about two inches). Small marginal worm hole (text is not affected). Lacks front flyleaf. Better than it sounds. Binding is square and tight. Hinges/joints are perfectly sound. The full leather binding is contemporary "sprinkled" calf (i.e. intentionally, and in this case attractively speckled, to achieve a marbled paper-like effect). First published in 1777 as THE CHAMPION OF VIRTUE, the book has been frequently reprinted under the present title. Although early London printings are available in abundance, early United States printings appear to be exceedingly scarce. "A Gothic novel derivative from Horace Walpole's THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. includes some supernaturalism in the haunted chambers of the castle." -- Bleiler 1374 [GUIDE TO SUPERNATURAL FICTION]. "Reeve gets credit for installing Gothic literature's first haunted chamber within the castle complex." -- Tymn 1-322 [HORROR LITERATURE, A CORE COLLECTION AND REFERENCE GUIDE]. American Imprints 26489. Also cited in Hubin, Montague Summers THE GOTHIC QUEST, etc. . First or Early American edition. Hardcover. Fair condition. 12mo. vi, 162pp.…

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On one side of a piece of paper, roughly 28 x 21.5 cm. On aged and worn paper. The engraving, roughly 11 x 13 cm, placed at the head of the page, is a head and shoulders portrait of Hampe, depicted in an oval frame, with inscription in Greek wound round a staff with snake (recalling the rod of Asclepius) and laurel sprig. Kauffmann's name engraved at bottom left and Burke's at bottom right. Beneath the engraving is a 27-line inscription beginning: "IOHANNES HENRICVS HAMPE | SIEGENA-NASSOVICVS | MEDICINAE DOCTOR DVISBVRGENSIS CLIVORVM'. Hampe pursued the Philosopher's stone at the expense of health and money.…

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