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X01. Books, Autographs and Manuscripts
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FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN , 1831: THE FIRST WITH HER INTRODUCTION
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus. Revised, Corrected, and Illustrated with a New Introduction, by the Author. BOUND WITH: BROWN, Charles Brockden. Edgar Huntly; or the Sleep Walker. London: Colburn and Bentley, 1831. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, red and green morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers and edges.
Third edition, the first with Shelley’s own revisions and introduction, prepared especially for this edition, relating the circumstances surrounding the writing of the novel; and the first illustrated edition.
“Frankenstein’s monster, though physically an abortion, is intellectually the ancestor of a numerous family. The story, which was c
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