Frankenstein! With autograph letter by the author, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, 1831

Frankenstein! With autograph letter by the author
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1831
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. [Bound with:] SCHILLER, Friedrich (1759-1805). The Ghost-Seer! London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.

Third edition, with a new introduction by Shelley, and including an autograph letter by her to Mary Gaskell. The new introduction relates the origin story of Frankenstein, a famous tale in itself of the wet summer of 1816 she spent at Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. The letter is to Mary Gaskell, expressing regret at the "contre-temps" which prevented their meeting. She had arrived home too late in the evening to receive the other's note.

Two volumes bound together, octavo (170 x 105mm). Two ad leaves at end. Engraved frontispiece depicting Frankenstein's animation, additional title with engraved vignette (title page worn, text with some scattered spots and stains, erasure on last text leaf affecting a few words). The Ghost-Seer! is volume one only as issued, being vol. 9 of Bentley's Standard Novels. Modern calf antique; slipcase.

[With:] Autograph letter signed ("MW Shelley") to Mrs [Mary] Gaskell, Harrow, "Tuesday." Two pages, 184 x 115mm.

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THE SCOTT GREENBAUM COLLECTION OF LITERARY FIRST EDITIONS