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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886 First English edition, first printing, with one page of publisher's advertisements at the rear of the text. Finely bound in three-quarter brown calf with marbled boards, five raised bands to spine, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine, blue endpapers, and red speckled edges. Near fine with a touch of wear to board edges and spine ends, light spotting to prelims, else clean interior. A very handsome copy of Stevenson's classic work. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tells of London lawyer Mr. Utterson's investigation of the peculiar relationship between the respectable Dr. Jekyll and the villainous Mr. Hyde, who are actually the two split personalities of one man. Today, it remains an archetypal text about man's internal conflict between good and evil. Notably, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was first issued as a "penny dreadful," a cheaply produced paperback sold for a penny, featuring sensational stories of horror and crime.…

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.