WALPOLE, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story, London, for William Bathoe and Thomas Lownds, 1765, 8°, second edition (title and final leaf browned at margins), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (upper cover detatched, small tear to head of spine) [Hazen Walpole 17]; Jeffrey's Edition of the Castle of Otranto, London, sold by the publisher, 1800, 8°, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by Birrell after Anne Melicent Clarke (A1-2 crudely-repaired at inner margins, some browning of text), contemporary tree calf (upper cover detached).

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WALPOLE, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story, London, for William Bathoe and Thomas Lownds, 1765, 8°, second edition (title and final leaf browned at margins), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (upper cover detatched, small tear to head of spine) [Hazen Walpole 17]; Jeffrey's Edition of the Castle of Otranto, London, sold by the publisher, 1800, 8°, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by Birrell after Anne Melicent Clarke (A1-2 crudely-repaired at inner margins, some browning of text), contemporary tree calf (upper cover detached).

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The second edition is a page-for-page reprint of the first, but with typographical errors corrected, the addition of a Sonnet to Lady Mary Coke and a Preface to the Second Edition in which Walpole acknowledges his authorship of the book. In the first edition, also dated 1765, though published on 24 December 1764, Walpole had claimed his work was a translation from a rare Italian volume printed in 1529. The plates in Jeffrey's edition were first published by S. Harding in July 1793, becoming well-known from their use, with new lettering, in Sivrac's Italian translation in 1795; they were issued in Jeffrey's editions of 1796 and 1800.