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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886.
8o (180 x 118 mm). Original tan printed wrappers (slightest soiling, minimal wear to backstrip); cloth folding case. Provenance: A.S.W. Rosenbach Collection (card laid in) -- Willard A. Brown, Sr. (typed letter from his son presenting the volume to Abel Berland, 18 August 1993).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, wrappers issue with the "5" in the date on the front wrapper changed by hand to "6." Preceded by the American Scribner edition by four days. "Like Shelley's Frankenstein, this is an updating of the Faust theme which speculates on the dangers of science out of control...Stevenson's theme of the human mind fragmenting into mutually exclusive, mutually destructive bits has been treated by countless later writers" (Lilly). Ashley VI, p. 8; Beinecke 349; Lilly 21. VERY FINE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
8o (180 x 118 mm). Original tan printed wrappers (slightest soiling, minimal wear to backstrip); cloth folding case. Provenance: A.S.W. Rosenbach Collection (card laid in) -- Willard A. Brown, Sr. (typed letter from his son presenting the volume to Abel Berland, 18 August 1993).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, wrappers issue with the "5" in the date on the front wrapper changed by hand to "6." Preceded by the American Scribner edition by four days. "Like Shelley's Frankenstein, this is an updating of the Faust theme which speculates on the dangers of science out of control...Stevenson's theme of the human mind fragmenting into mutually exclusive, mutually destructive bits has been treated by countless later writers" (Lilly). Ashley VI, p. 8; Beinecke 349; Lilly 21. VERY FINE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.