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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 1st Edition . Very Good. 4.75 x 7.25 inches (12 x 18.5 cm). First printing of the first UK edition, one of 1250 copies in hardback, there was also a paperback edition issued simultaneously. Salmon cloth binding with title in black to front board. Slight wear to ends of spine. Rubbing to edges of spine and corners of boards. A little light marking to boards. Patterned endpapers. Foxing to endpapers, light foxing to half title page and final blank. Good solid binding, very clean text throughout. Complete with expected final leaf advertising the second edition of A Child's Garden of Verses. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper and name to half title page (Thomas Pearce Jacomb). A gothic fiction classic, uncommon in this condition. (Prideaux 17, Beinecke 346). Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest 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.