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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1886. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. 18cm. Contemporary or near contemporary blue cloth binding titled in gilt to spine. 141pp. [3pp] ads to rear, including recto/verso of original wrap. The binding is tight, clean, and handsome, showing only trifling wear to spine ends and extremities. Internally clean, coated black endpapers, some light soiling to half title, probably caused by the absence of the front wrap. This is clearly a Longmans paper wraps edition, published simultaneously with the salmon pink hardcover, and then placed in this slightly strange binding, with the rear wrap complete with advertisments, retained at the rear. It's extremely professional, blind ruled to the boards and with slim gilt ruling to the spine, it doesn't show the hallmarks of a library binding, but looks more like an in house job, although it lacks an imprint to the base of the spine and there's some slight misalignment of the title stamping. The endpapers in…

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.