Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

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Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

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This is the original edition which was published in 3 volumes. The cover photograph is of Volume 1.
Published anonymously. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
First edition.
With half-titles.
Title page with quote from Milton's Paradise Lost: "Did I request thee, maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?"
Printer statement from title page verso of volume 1; place of printing follows printer.
Pagination: volume 1: xii, 181, [3] pages; volume 2: [4], 156 pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages.
Publisher's advertisements on 2 unnumbered pages at end of volume 1 and 2 unnumbered pages at the end of volume 3.

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OL26870537M
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0192543725
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9780192543721

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