SHELLEY MARY Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Revised C

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SHELLEY, MARY. 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. Engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette, offsetting and thin line of dampstaining around edges. xii, 202; xvi, 258. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, heavily worn, spine labels loose and laid inside; gentle splits between a few gatherings. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831

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First one-volume, first illustrated, and first edition to credit Mary Shelley as author. She "revised [and] corrected" the text for publication by Bentley, and, at the request of the publishers, she wrote an Introduction, dated October 15, 1831. In it she states that she made a few simple style alterations, but nothing affecting the story proper and are "mere adjuncts to the story, leaving the core and substance of it untouched" (Introduction, p. xii). Lyles B4a; Sadleir 3734a; Wolff 6280a.