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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1886. First English Edition, issue with the “6” in the date on upper wrapper changed by hand from “5”. Half-title with list of works on verso, ads for Longman’s Magazine on inner front wrapper, inner back wrapper advertising novels by Whyte-Melville, outer back wrapper advertising The Dynamiter and two works by Bret Harte. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, preserving front and back wrapper. Marginal repairs to pp. 23-8, otherwise clean. Very good, attractively bound copy. First English Edition, issue with the “6” in the date on upper wrapper changed by hand from “5”. Half-title with list of works on verso, ads for Longman’s Magazine on inner front wrapper, inner back wrapper advertising novels by Whyte-Melville, outer back wrapper advertising The Dynamiter and two works by Bret Harte. 1 vols. 8vo. Stevenson’s dark tale of Victorian hypocrisy. Published one day after the New York edition. Beinecke I:349

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.

First editions of 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1886 can be identified by their binding, which is usually in a brownish-red cloth with gilt lettering, and the date printed on the title page.