Sophie LEE
Le souterrain, ou Matilde
Chez Théophile Barrois|à Paris 1788|9 x 16.50 cm|relié
New edition, rare, following the first French edition published in 1786. Translation by De La Marre of the English novel: the Recess, or a tale of other time (1785).
Contemporary half brown sheep binding with corners. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Havana morocco title label. Head slightly worn. Foot largely missing. A crack at foot. Corners slightly bumped. Split to upper joint at head. Modest binding.
Like Walpole's Castle of Otranto, The Recess is one of the first Gothic novels, not yet inhabited by the formulas and stereotypes that would exhaust the genre itself, but it already contains all the ingredients that would make it successful: spleen, melancholy, terr
Contemporary half brown sheep binding with corners. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Havana morocco title label. Head slightly worn. Foot largely missing. A crack at foot. Corners slightly bumped. Split to upper joint at head. Modest binding.
Like Walpole's Castle of Otranto, The Recess is one of the first Gothic novels, not yet inhabited by the formulas and stereotypes that would exhaust the genre itself, but it already contains all the ingredients that would make it successful: spleen, melancholy, terr
€500