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London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886. First UK edition, preceded by a few days by the U.S. edition. Handsomely re-bound in full leather by Riviere & Sons. 12mo (4 5/8 x 7") rich blue morocco with gilt double rules to board edges, gilt lettered spine, 5 raised spine bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers and ornate gilt inner dentelles. Half title present and one-page ad for A Child's Garden of Verses at rear, as called for. Also with rear cover from the original wrapper, which is showing a large chip at bottom corner, bound in (front of wrapper not present). [Beineke 349, Grolier 75a, Prideaux 17]. Armorial, engraved bookplate of Gordon Hartley by S. C. Malone to front pastedown. Near fine with inconspicuous expert repair and touch up to inner and outer hinges which are a little tender.

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.