1912 Frankenstein : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Everyman's Library : Gothic

Frankenstein

By Mary W. Shelley

Published by J M Dent & Sons, undated, [1912]. Everyman's Library. Small 8vo, red cloth binding with gilt to spine, decorative endpapers, decorative title page, pp xii, 242.

CONDITION
A good copy. The cloth binding is good with some grubby marks (see images). Decorative endpapers very good. Small neat name to front free endpaper dated 1914. All contents preent and pages clean throughout. Overall a good early copy of this classic Gothic novel.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. 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 women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

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