Frankenstein

The Original 1818 Edition

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Frankenstein

The Original 1818 Edition

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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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Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Edition
Jul 05, 2022, Booklover’s Library Classics
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Frankenstein: Original 1818 Uncensored Version
2015, Enhanced Media, [Lulu.com]
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Frankenstein: 1818 Text
1998, Oxford University Press
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Frankenstein
1996, W.W. Norton
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus, the 1818 text
1982, University of Chicago Press
in English - Phoenix ed.
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Frankenstein
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Source title: Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Edition (Booklover's Library Classics)

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Number of pages
165

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OL39811849M
ISBN 10
1915582229
ISBN 13
9781915582225

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