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LEWIS, M.G. (Matthew Gregory). Ambrosio; Or, The Monk. A Romance by...
Printed at Boston: By Samuel Etheridge, for Thomas & Andrews. Sold by them the other booksellers, and S. Etheridge, in Boston by... 1799. Three volumes in Two (so stated). Second American edition, From the Fourth British Edition (so stated). 12mo., full contemporary calf, gilt stamped compartments, leather labels, (viii), (9)-258, (2)blank; (ii), (3)- 252pp. [ (A)4, B-U6, W6, X6 (X6 blank); A-U6, W6] Name, bookplate, small piece torn of the upper corner of G5 & G6 in volume one without loss, tear to H6 in volume two without loss, corner torn off I5 in volume two without loss, some foxing throughout, wear to the spine ends with a small chip at the foot and top of volume two, but in fact a near fine copy of this scarce early edition of this important gothic novel. Evans 35729
"First published in London in 1796, "The Monk" went into a fourth edition in Early American editions of gothic novels are notoriously difficult to find than their English counterparts. This was primarily due to the small print runs and their general unpopularity at the time of publication. NUC notes four locations for this "second" edition and does not note the first US edition of 1798. OCLC gives 4 locations for the first U.S. edition.
"The Monk" has been described as "an encyclopedia of all the Gothic impulses crowding the literary marketplace. With its potent intermixture of satanism, supernaturalism, sexuality and sadism, The Monk rapidly fixed itself in the public mind as the locus classicus of the novel of horror.....it repudiated all the subtler ways of terror, offering no mysteries, no prolonged suspense, no pretended supernatural, no genealogical reconciliations, and no pity for its sufferers and sinners. Lewis seemed to be in pursuit of some new ideal of the hideous entailing the most drastic and abominable inventory of effects the Gothic novel had yet seen. Bleeding nuns, Wandering Jews, decaying infants, ruthless charnel house rapes, and a host of other emetic events lead up to the gruesome immolation of the Monk at the hands of Lucifer." (Frank: First Gothics p.209).
$4,500.00
