The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

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Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 1930. viii, 136 pages. Bound in full black cloth with gilt illustration and titles on the front board and spine. Top edge stained red, others untrimmed. Previous owner’s bookplate verso of front cover. Front inner hinge not weak but with a small crack. Illustrated with 8 b/w plates printed on heavy paper & numerous head and tail pieces by S. G. Hulme Beaman.
”The images include sometimes incongruous or unexplained details, such as the sculpture on the mantelpiece, the bricks tumbling from the wall. What is left is something not dissimilar to a German expressionist film and theatre set with disorienting planes and disruptive or unknown light-sources, which echo the disruption within Jekyll/Hyde’s identity.” British Library.