THE MONK. London: G. Fawdon, May's Building, St. Martin's Lane; J. Thomas, Birchin Lane, 1833. Small octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [3] 4-451 [452: printer's imprint] [note: text complete; mispaged by the printer], 11 full-page illustrations on plates inserted in text, vignette title page, rebound in modern cloth. Later edition. Illustrated throughout with wonderfully lurid wood engravings. "The impact of THE MONK on the development of the Gothic novel needs no stressing. This arch-Gothic novel touched the psychopathic extremes of the Romantic consciousness and created a horror model without peer among the early Gothics." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 1-58. "THE MONK remains one of the most readable of Gothic novels. While at times it is garrulous and somewhat gloating in its eroticism, it is alive." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1016. Frank, The First Gothics 244. A fine copy. COPAC reports a copy at University of Sheffield only. A rare edition of this classic monastic shocker. (#170635).
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