![]() ![]() ![]() Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. ![]() Unrestored contemporary bindings in excellent condition. Contemporary owner signature on title pages of Volumes II-IV. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818), even in its gentle satire of the genre, acknowledges the influence of Radcliffe’s popular novels: “When you have finished Udolpho,” the young Isabella says to Catherine Moreland, “we will read the Italian together.” All half titles present. “The seminal terror Gothic romance and the premier maiden-centered Gothic of the 18th century… Udolpho’s vast influence in both its own time and ours can hardly be overestimated.” Ann Radcliffe’s achievement fundamentally shaped the genre, “for she steered the tradition, as Ellen Moers has remarked, ‘in one of the ways it would go ever after a novel in which the central figure is a young woman who is simultaneously persecuted victim and courageous heroine” (Tymn, Horror Literature 1-316). 12mo, contemporary three-quarter calf gilt, marbled boards and endpapers.įirst edition of Radcliffe’s premiere Gothic novel, a masterpiece of the genre, exceptional in contemporary bindings. “THE SEMINAL TERROR GOTHIC ROMANCE OF THE 18TH CENTURY”: 1794 FIRST EDITION OF THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO IN CONTEMPORARY CALF-BACKED BOARDS ![]()
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