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SHELLEY, Mary (1797-1851) – SCHILLER, Friedrich (1759-1805)

Lot 135
13.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 135 | SHELLEY, Mary (1797-1851) – SCHILLER, Friedrich (1759-1805)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
SHELLEY, Mary (1797-1851) – SCHILLER, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. The Ghost-Seer! London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.
The first illustrated edition, with a new introduction by Shelley. This one-volume edition, the third in English and fourth overall, became 'the standard text for most future editions, with an Introduction by "M. W. S." explaining the circumstances of the novel's composition and crediting the 1818 [Frankenstein] Preface to Shelley’ (Lyles). Lyles, B4a; Sadleir 3734a; Summers, page 330; Wolff 6205, 6280a.

Two works bound in one, as issued, being vol. 9 of Bentley's Standard Novels, octavo (170 x 109mm). 4pp. of introductory matter about the ‘National Library’ followed by letterpress general title, steel-engraved frontispiece and additional title, letterpress title to first work, pp.v-xii, 202; half-title, 163, [1, imprint], [4, publisher's ads]; bound with Volume I (only, without the conclusion that appeared in vol. 10 of Bentley's Standard Novels) of Friedrich Schiller's, The Ghost Seer (1. D7 torn at gutter with loss of a few letters, 2. I2 with small marginal chip, some occasional faint soiling). Publisher's brown cloth, edges uncut (rebacked preserving most of the backstrip, new black leather gilt spine labels, extremities lightly rubbed, slightly more heavily to corners); contained in a modern burgundy morocco clamshell box.
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