1901 Scarce Gothic Book - FRANKENSTEIN or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.
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Author : Mary Shelley.
Title : Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus.
Publisher : Chicago, W. B. Conkey Company, no date (circa 1901).
Language : Text in English
Size : 6 " X 4.5 ".
Pages : 299 pages.
Binding : Attractive and good original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed, gilt decoration faded - as shown but still attractive) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing or staining).
Illustrations : Complete with the frontispiece portrait and the 3 full page illustrations by Charles Arthur Cox.
Estimate : (USD 350 - USD 500)
The book : Very Rare edition of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus -- a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823. A rare find in the original "Art Nouveau" binding!
The author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.