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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1885 [corrected in ink to 1886]. image 1
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1885 [corrected in ink to 1886]. image 2
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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1885 [corrected in ink to 1886].

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1885 [corrected in ink to 1886].
8vo. 1 p ad leaf at rear. Publisher's wrappers lettered and decorated in red and blue, neatly rebacked, light wear.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH HAND-CORRECTED DATE TO UPPER WRAPPER. Stevenson's classic tale was intended to be published during Christmas 1885, but according to publisher Charles Longman "when it was ready the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc., and the trade would not look at it" (Balfour, Life..., 1901, v 2, p 14). It was issued in early January 1886, but relatively unnoticed until it was reviewed favorably in The Times, compelling it to sales of 40,000 copies in the first 6 months, with Jekyll & Hyde eventually embedding himsel(ves) in our lexicon. A Haycroft-Queen Cornerstone. Beinecke 346; Prideaux 17.

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