SHELLEY MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Frankenstein or the Modern Prome

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SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Frankenstein or, the Modern Prometheus. Engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette. 8vo, original brown cloth rebacked retaining backstrip, faded, overall light spotting, corners bumped, some color restoration; hinges and endpapers reinforced from rebacking, contemporary owner's inked signature from 1846 on front pastedown, frontispiece and vignette with some period hand-coloring (more so to vignette), scattered light foxing. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831

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first one-volume edition, first illustrated, and first edition to credit mary shelley as author. Part of Bentley's Standard Novels Series, other issues from the same year were bound with one or more stories by the authors. Shelley "revised [and] corrected" the text for publication by Bentley and, at the request of the publishers, she wrote an Introduction, dated October 15th, 1831. In it, she states that she made a few simple style alterations, but nothing affecting the tale, rather "mere adjuncts to the story, leaving the core and substance of it untouched" (Introduction, p xii). Lyles B4a; Sadleir 3734a; Wolff 6280a.