NMLP P-036098 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Castle of Otranto, A Story

Horace Walpole · Tho. Lownds (London) · 1764

The first edition's title page does not carry the now-famous subtitle 'A Gothic Story,' which was added only when Walpole acknowledged authorship in the second edition of 1765

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036098 for "The Castle of Otranto, A Story" by Horace Walpole (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036098, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).