Shelley, Mary Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus 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