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London; Belfast: Charles W. Olley; Seeley and Co; Longmans, Green and Co; Frederick Warne and Co, 1885-1890. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 6". Not Stated. Four late nineteenth century novels bound together, including the fifth edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', published in the same year as the first edition. A thrilling collection of four Victorian era novels.Most excitingly, this collection of four novels includes the 1886 fifth edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic gothic tale 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', published in the same year as the first edition.Retaining the original half title, and terminal advertisement leaf.Also present in this collection is Irish writer John Shaw's vanishingly scarce 1888 novel 'The Golden Halcombes', published in Belfast. Only one institutionally held copy of this work is recorded, at Queen's University Belfast.Emma Marshall's scarce novel 'The Old Gateway or The Story of…

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.