The castle of Otranto, : a Gothic story.
The Castle of Otranto is a Gothic novel by Horace Walpole, printed in 1791 at Parma by Bodoni for the London bookseller J. Edwards, and this copy has a marbled endpaper cover with a Smithsonian gift label. The second picture is a rotated plate of a dark stone building with a long diagonal roof edge, rendered in fine hatched engraving on cream paper, which suggests a designer could borrow its heavy shadows and architectural masonry for gothic-themed layouts.
