[Rarebooks] FS: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. Classic Gothic Romance. Decorated Leather Binding

[Karen Cinquemani]

Greetings,

We are pleased to offer a sweet copy of Mrs. Radcliffe's famous  
romantic thriller.  Though often reprinted, not many older copies have  
survived through the years: this gothic tale was "read to death."

Some pictures are posted here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/90304460/the-mysteries-of-udolpho-ann-radcliffe?

Many thanks for looking.
Karen Cinquemani   H.A.S. Beane Books


The Mysteries of Udolpho. Three Volumes in One. By Mrs. Ann Radcliffe.  
Philadelphia: Leary and Getz (1854). Trigesimo-segundo 32mo. (5 3/16 x  
3 1/2). 208, 207, 206 pp. Black leather hardcover with gilt spine  
title and ornate gilt spine decoration; gilt and blind-stamped  
decorative boards.

Significant hand rub to spine which has become mostly suede; shelf  
wear on edges and corners; loosening of front board at first blank;  
contents slightly foxed and age-toned, mostly within pages of first  
volume and at endpapers; rear blank page seems to have been removed.  
Signature of former owner (?Allie Straley?) on front and back  
endpapers. No other marks found. Contents otherwise clean and still  
legible, binding intact. Complete.  Sweet, well-read chubby little  
volume in good antiquarian condition.

The Mysteries of Udolpho (originally published in four volumes in  
1794) is Ann Radcliffe?s classic gothic tale of castles, abductions,  
and Italian villains. It enjoyed immense popularity in eighteenth- and  
nineteenth-century England and inspired many copies and parodies,  
including (most notably) Jane Austen?s Northanger Abbey, in which  
heroine Catherine Morland imagines her life to be infused with gothic  
danger after reading too much Ann Radcliffe.

Though Mrs. Radcliffe's most famous book had been reprinted often by  
the middle of the 19th century, this first edition for Leary and Getz  
is exceedingly rare--only one copy is found on WorldCat and that in  
the New York Public Reserve Library in Special Collections.

$225 Postpaid in U.S. Elsewhere at cost. Reciprocal trade.

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