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IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
6. Nightmare Abbey [PEACOCK, Thomas Love]
T. Hookham, Jun. & Baldwin Cradock and Joy, 1818. First edition. Original publisher’s drab grey boards with title label to the spine. Page edges uncut. A very good copy, rebacked but retaining most of the original spine and the original title label. Some pencil marks to the rear boards and a little general surface wear to the edges and cor- ners, front hinge cracked but holding. In all a well preserved copy of a book seldom encountered in boards. Housed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. [41539] £4,500 The author’s most famous work, a pastiche of the Gothic novel published in the same year as Jane Austen’s similarly titled Gothic burlesque. It is also a play on romantic literary society with characters drawn to resemble Byron, Coleridge, Shelley and others. Rare in boards. Other than this copy, which was offered in the Hersholt sale in 1954, there have only been three other copies at auction in the last 100 years, in 1952, 1945 (Hogan copy) and 1936. PROVENANCE: Francis Watt (Name and year of publication to front pastedown and title); Jean Hersholt (bookplate to inside of chemise, sold at his sale in 1954).
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