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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Author)
Vickery, Willis, 1857-1932 (Former owner)
Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957 (Former owner)
Godwin, William, 1756-1836 (Dedicatee)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1818
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones
Edition: First edition
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: *Pforz 559R 02
Topics
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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Notes
Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Citation/reference: Anderson Galleries, Rare Books from the library of the late Willis Vickery, part one, March 1, 1933
Citation/reference: Tinker Library catalogue 1881
Content: Signatures: volume 1: [A]⁶ B-H¹² I⁶ K²; volume 2: [A]² B-G¹² H⁶ I⁴; volume 3: [A]² B-I¹² K².
Content: Watermark = 1816.
Content: Price: 16s. 6d., in boards.
Content: Publisher's advertisements: at back of each volume: volume 1, 2 pages; volume 2, 8 pages; volume 3, 4 pages.
Content: Printer's imprint: "Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, London."
Content: Epigraph: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me? -- / Paradise Lost."
Content: 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.
Physical Description
Extent: 3 volumes (volume 1: xii, 181, [2] pages; volume 2: [4], 156, [8] pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages) ; 20 cm
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
Watermark = 1816
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
Library of Congress Control Number: 53051218
RLIN/OCLC: 2748084
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13399796
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5b4d9740-c5f4-012f-9b5f-58d385a7bc34
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