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Description: One of the Pforzheimer Collection’s copies of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This copy is in its original boards, has the original printed spine labels, and retains the pages of advertisements which are usually lacking. Carl Pforzheimer bought this copy in 1933 at the sale of the library of the Cleveland judge Willis Vickery, whose leather book labels are on each front pastedown. An earlier owner, “R. W. Sparks” of the Grittleton School in Wiltshire, England, has signed his large signature in ink on the front free endpapers.
Names: Godwin, William, 1756-1836 (Dedicatee); Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1818; Place: London; Publisher: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: *Pforz A-RU 11; Shelf locator: Berg Coll Shelley, M. 1818 c. 1
Topics: Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Genres: Books
Notes: Content: Colophon: Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair, London.; Acquisition: Vickery sale, March 1933, through Rosenbach; Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Physical Description: Extent: 3 v. (v. 1: xii, 181, [2] p.; v. 2: 2 p.l., 156, [8] p.; v. 3: 2 p.l., 192, [4] p.) ; 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: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13399796; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5b4d9740-c5f4-012f-9b5f-58d385a7bc34

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