Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto

Title page of the first edition: notice that the book is pitched as a translation from Italian.

Title page of a later edition: from the second edition on, Walpole explained his work as "Gothic Story."

An illustration from The Castle of Otranto:

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