Family Portrait, or Descendants of Trelawney [alt. title: Family Portraits]

New-York: William Burnett / G.W. Smith, 1834. Very Good. New-York: William Burnett, 17 Ann Street. G.W. Smith, Print., 1834. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); full contemporary gilt-tooled mottled sheep, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers; 472pp.; steel engraved frontispiece and added engraved title page, six leaves of plates signed in image by R. Stennet and engraved by Thomas Swann Woodstock of New York (collated complete). Light edge wear and small chips at spine ends, remnants only of ex libris to front flyleaf with rather unsightly offsetting to facing leaf, contemporary ownership signature, heavy foxing throughout. Still a Very Good and sound copy in lovely contemporary American binding.

Gothic novel first published as "Family Portraits" in 1822 in London, serving as a sequel to the author's popular novel "The Mysterious Marriage," rife with forbidden marriages, mistaken identities, and babies swapped at birth. The American edition is enhanced with an entirely updated spooky suite of engravings by R. Stennett which include, in reference to the novel's title, formal portraits of the different characters.

Exceedingly scarce, with just four examples in OCLC as of March, 2026, at Berea College, AAS, U. Tulsa, and BYU.

American Imprints 25577; Montague Summers, "A Gothic Bibliography," p. 316.