Harold E Spencer Illustrations (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. Octavo. xlii, 50pp. Original black half-cloth over red illustrated boards with gray lettering on cover, gilt on spine. Red endpapers. Illustrated title page with black border. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrated half-titles. "The Vampyre, which appears between these covers in its original text, along with its author's own preface, enjoyed a considerable popularity both in England and on the Continent during the twenty years following its publication in 1819. Though perhaps not an important historical landmark in the evolution of English fiction, it is an interesting representative of that humble genre, the Gothic novel." (Adams). Beautifully illustrated with drawings of Donald K. Adams, most of them full page and reproduced lithographically. Binding with minor wear along edges, slight water staining at top of front and back cover near spine. …