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Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus. In three volumes.
- Title
- Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus. In three volumes.
- Author
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
- Publication
- London : Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | *Pforz 559R 02 | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | *Pforz 559R 03 | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | *Pforz A-LD 06 | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Shelley, M. 1818 c. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Shelley, M. 1818 c. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Shelley, M. 1818 c. 3 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Shelley, M. 1818 c. 4 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- 3 volumes (volume 1: xii, 181, [2] pages; volume 2: [4], 156, [8] pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages); 20 cm
- Alternative Title
- Modern Prometheus
- Note
- Signatures: volume 1: [A]⁶ B-H¹² I⁶ K²; volume 2: [A]² B-G¹² H⁶ I⁴; volume 3: [A]² B-I¹² K².
- Watermark = 1816.
- Price: 16s. 6d., in boards.
- Publisher's advertisements: at back of each volume: volume 1, 2 pages; volume 2, 8 pages; volume 3, 4 pages.
- Printer's imprint: "Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, London."
- Epigraph: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me? -- / Paradise Lost."
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Indexed In (note)
- Anderson Galleries, Rare Books from the library of the late Willis Vickery, part one, March 1, 1933
- Tinker Library catalogue
- Call Number
- *Pforz 559R 02
- LCCN
- 53051218
- OCLC
- 2748084
- Author
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
- Title
- Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus. In three volumes.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
- Edition
- [First edition.]
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Indexed In:
- Anderson Galleries, Rare Books from the library of the late Willis Vickery, part one, March 1, 1933Tinker Library catalogue 1881
- Local Note
- Berg copy 1: Presentation copy to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, with his ownership inscription on the front pastedown of volume 2 (“T: Jeff.n Hogg from the / Author”). – In original pink paste paper boards, with original printed spine labels. – Formerly owned by Owen D. Young. – Within full black morocco slipcase, made by Riviere & Son, with ornate gilt decorations and red morocco inlays on spine and covers.Berg copy 2: With early ink ownership signature on front covers (“[?] Gallagher[?]”). – With four pages of advertisements for Law & Whittaker bound in at the front of volume 1; lacking advertisements in volumes 2 and 3. – In original blue boards with drab backstrips, original printed spine labels. – With the bookplate of John A. Spoor in each volume, sold at his sale, Parke-Bernet galleries, May 3, 1939, lot 744. – Formerly owned by Albert A. and Henry W. Berg. – Within blue quarter morocco and blue linen slipcase with gilt spine titling.Berg copy 3: Mostly unopened. – In later blue boards with drab paper backstrips, (original?) printed spine labels. Lacking the advertisements in volumes 2 and 3. – Formerly owned by W. T. H. Howe. – Within green quarter morocco and green linen slipcase designed to look like three separate volumes, with gilt spine titling.Berg copy 4: With early ink ownership signature on title pages (“Stewart / 1818”); armorial bookplate of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry (motto: Metuenda Corolla Draconis) on the front pastedown of volume 2. – With the gilt leather book labels of W. T. H. Howe. – Lacking the ads at the front of volume 1 – Contemporary half calf, rebacked, marbled boards, black morocco spine labels, gilt spine titling and rules. -- Within red half calf and red linen slipcase.Pforzheimer copy 1 : *Pforz 559R 02 : Mottled pink paper boards, printed paper spine labels, untrimmed; in red cloth jackets with hand-lettered paper spine labels; in light blue cloth folder with some interior marbling; in dark blue straight grain-morocco and light blue cloth slip-case with bevelled front edges, gilt letters on back. -- In ink on front free endpapers; R W Sparks/? Grittleton School; book-plate of Willis Vickery. Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the Vickery sale, Anderson galleries, March 1933, through A. S. W. Rosenbach, lot 128.Pforzheimer copy 2 : *Pforz 559R 03 : Advertisement leaves removed. -- ALs, MWS to Miss Peacock removed to manuscript file (MWS 0322); ALs, PBS to W. Bryant removed from from volume 2 (PBS 0236). -- Half brown straight grain morocco, brown cloth, gilt letters, marbled endpapers, untrimmed; in brown moire cloth folder, in brown straight grain morocco, round-back pull-off case, gilt letters; bound by Riviere & Son. -- Book-plates of George Barr McCutcheon and Charles C. Auchincloss. -- Acquired by the Pforzheimer Library at the Auchincloss sale, Parke-Bernet galleries, November 1961, through John Fleming.Pforzheimer copy 3 : *Pforz A-RD 06 : Lacks advertising leaves, volumes 2 & 3. -- In half red roan, gilt letters, decorations, and rules, drab boards, drab endpapers. -- Acquired by the Pforzheimer Library before 1986.
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- Added Author
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836, dedicateeLackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, publisher.Macdonald & Son, printer.Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862, former owner.Auchincloss, Charles C., 1881-1960, former owner.Berg, Albert A., 1872-1950, former owner.Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938, former owner.Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), 1874-1939, former owner.McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928, former owner.Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.Riviere & Son, binder.Spoor, John A. (John Alden), 1851-1926, former owner.Vickery, Willis, 1857-1932, former owner.Young, Owen D., 1874-1962, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- *Pforz 559R 02*Pforz 559R 03*Pforz A-RD 06