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  • Publication: The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic StoryPublication Record # 663188
  • Author: Horace Walpole
  • Date: 1998-04-00
  • ISBN: 0-19-283440-1 [978-0-19-283440-9]
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Pub. Series: Oxford World's Classics
  • Pages: xxxviii+125
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (1996) • by John Singleton Copley
  • Notes:
      New only in the re-branding of Oxford UP "World's Classics" as "Oxford World's Classics", evidently
    • WorldCat library records (OCLC, below; see also LCCN 96-4301) report: -- "edited by W.S. Lewis ; with a new introduction and notes by E.J. Clery" Lewis newly edited and also introduced the 1964 Oxford English Novels ed. (see).
    • Publication date (April) and cover image from Amazon UK 2018-04-28 (when Amazon US gives the same data except July) with "Look inside" that shows front cover matching this one and contains copyright page: -- 12th printing per numberline, ISBN-13 first-listed (probably 2007 or later) -- Library of Congress CIP data for LCCN 96-4301 -- Quote three lines:   Editorial Matter (c) E. J. Clery 1996   First published as a World's Classics paperback 1982   Reissued as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 1998
    • Some library records report (c)1998 for this ISBN, perhaps ISBN-13 first-listed. There is no evident 1998 copyright claim, nor any evident basis for such.
    • Apparently this is the World's Classics ed. re-branded as Oxford World's Classics. It is a "new edition" in no other respect. See the Pub. Series record for more information.
    • For more information about Contents see the record for "Introduction (The Castle of Otranto)" by Clery.
    • WorldCat library record with ISBN-10 first-listed probably report copies of pre-2007 printings. OCLC 40076865 provides the longer (1996?) Summary and linked publisher description. OCLC 60180854 reports "Oxford Paperbacks" and (as do others) "New ed", identifies Clery. OCLC 441852107 (among others) reports "cop. 1998".
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