Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

First published in 1886, this novella follows the London lawyer Gabriel Utterson as he tries to understand the tie between his friend Dr Henry Jekyll and a smaller, violent man named Edward Hyde. Hyde tramples a child, later murders Sir Danvers Carew, and seems able to vanish into Jekyll's house and laboratory. Utterson, the doctor Lanyon, and Jekyll's servants circle locked doors, a will, and a series of letters. The story is a mystery of identity and appetite: a respectable physician has found a chemical means of splitting what he takes to be his virtuous and vicious selves, and he cannot keep the experiment in hand.

Bound in black cloth with the figure of Hyde in gold. Yellow endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-jacket. Variant dust-jackets; one with and one without text printed on the inner flaps. Folio Press and J.M. Dent.