Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
£7,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Description
London: Colburn and Bentley, 1831. Third edition, 8vo, frontispiece, additional engraved title, comprising No. IX of Standard Novels and bound with: Schiller The Ghost-Seer! London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, volume 1 only; original purple cloth, upper cover detached, spine lacking, a little dampstaining and browning to frontispiece and engraved title of Frankenstein, covers dampstained, with publisher's adverts at front and rear, ownership signature in biro to paste-down endpaper
Footnote
Note: The frontispiece and engraved title-page comprise the first illustrations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in print.
Provenance: From the Library of the Late William St Clair