Gothic novel.- [Walpole (Horace)] The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story, second edition, light marginal to title and final leaf, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, 8vo, Printed for William Bathoe and Thomas Lownds, 1765.*** A very good copy of the second edition, published in the same year as the first edition, of the first major gothic novel, and one which influenced much of the genre.Provenance: Mary Hamilton (ink inscription on title).