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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 141 [+ads.]pp. Duodecimo (120 mm x 178 mm). First UK edition. Buff coloured printed wrappers with dark blue lettering and decorations and red lettering to both the front and back wrappers; date corrected in black ink on the front wrapper. Some closed tears and chipping along the edges of the wrappers, as well as some professional restoration to the spine. A very small chip missing from the bottom corner of the title page. Internally clean. Housed in a custom made red cloth clamshell case backed with red morocco leather and stamped gold gilt lettering. A very good copy of a fragile and scarce book. The American edition of this novella was published just four days before the UK edition, making it technically the true first edition; The UK edition consisted of only 4250 copies--1250 in cloth and 3000 in wrappers. This is probably one of Stevenson's most well known works and was hugely popular upon its publication. 1886

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.