AUTHOR: SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft - Frederick Schiller.
TITLE: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, Revised, Corrected, and Illustrated with a New Introduction by the Author - BOUND WITH - Schiller: The Ghost-Seer! Volume IX of Bentley's Standard Novels series.
PUBLISHER: London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST PRINTING OF THE THIRD AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 1 vol., 6-3/4" x 4-1/2", with the engraved frontis and additional engraved title-page, and a new introduction by Mary Shelley, bound with the “Ghost-Seer” as issued. Bound in the original straight grained green cloth, gilt lettered spine, yellow pastedowns and endpapers.
CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, some very minor toning to the engraved frontis and additional engraved tile-page, offsetting to frontis and additional engraved title-page, occasional minor foxing, some scuffing and staining to the pastedowns and endpapers apparently from something being removed at some point, much better than it may sound for a completely unsophisticated/unrepaired copy, overall a VERY GOOD copy in the original cloth.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: All first three printings of "Frankenstein" are scarce. The first printing of the third edition (and the first 1 volume edition) contains the first ever attempt to illustrate the Monster. In her introduction, Shelley contextualizes the creation of her tale: "It proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house. Some volumes of ghost stories, translated from the German into French, fell into our hands… 'We will each write a ghost story,' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to"..... "And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper".
