Published by the Folio Society, London in 1993.
 
First Folio Edition. The book is in excellent condition with pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in red, as well as red endpapers, in the publisher's board slip-case, the case lightly worn at extremities. Eight full-page colour plates by Felix Zakar and an introduction by Devendra P. Varma.
 
Melmoth the Wanderer was first published in 1820 as a gothic novel by Irish playwright, novelist and clergyman Charles Maturin. The novel's titular character is a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew.
 
The novel is composed of a series of nested stories-within-stories, gradually revealing the story of Melmoth's life. It offers social commentary on early-19th-century England, and denounces Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism.