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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.
DESCRIPTION
3 volumes, Octavo. 176 pp (each), set in Brunel Text Roman No 2 and printed on Century Laid, cotton paper in an edition of 25 copies (this is no 5). Bound by hand in half leather with marbled boards, in a slipcase.
Attractively bound by hand, titles and decoration to spine gilt, marbled edges.
CONDITION
Brand new copy in a fine binding.
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Synopsis
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley in 1818. The story revolves around Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a monstrous creature and immediately regrets his actions, abandoning the creature to its own devices. The creature, seeking acceptance and revenge, terrorizes Victor and those he loves. Themes of ambition, ethics, humanity, and loneliness are explored through Shelley's vivid descriptions of the natural world and her characters' psychological torment. Frankenstein remains a classic of Gothic literature and a seminal work of science fiction. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wrote the first draft of her groundbreaking novel in 1816, while on a trip to Lake Geneva with her soon-to-be husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and poet Lord Byron. They were stuck indoors during famously known as the Year Without a Summer.
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How can something be "used" and new and "first edition from 1831 but also SEALED in the original shrinkwrap"? You should learn what these words mean or include only factual information in your descriptions when selling things.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Regency Books 1811
(PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19
- Title
- Frankenstein
- Author
- Mary Shelley
- Format/Binding
- Fine binding
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rambler Press
- Place of Publication
- Warsaw
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Frankenstein, Ghotic, Shelley
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Regency Books 1811
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About the Seller
Regency Books 1811
Biblio member since 2017
Warszawa
About Regency Books 1811
The Rambler Press was founded in the summer of 2013 and was conceived from love for English culture, history, and countryside as well as handmade paper and Caslon type. Our main purpose is to capture the beauty of 18th-century books, the finest period of English typography: bygone historical ligatures, long s, ornaments, what once created an exceptional piece of printing, sometimes called – without any exaggeration – "fine printing".
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Marbled boards
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- Fine Binding
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- New
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