Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus : in three volumes
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Writer of preface), Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones (Publisher), Macdonald and Son (London, England) (Printer)
Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus" (1818) is a combination of gothic horror story and science fiction first conceived for a writing challenge by Lord Byron when she was just eighteen. It is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who assembles pieces of corpses to create an artificial man and brings it to life with galvanism. Though it seeks affection, the unnamed monster inspires loathing in everyone it meets. Lonely and miserable, the creature ultimately destroys its creator
Print Book, English, 1818
Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, Finsbury Square, London, 1818
Science fiction
3 volumes ; 19 cm (12mo)
2748084
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
With an uncredited preface by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pagination: volume 1: xii, 181, [3] pages; volume 2: [4], 156 pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages
Signatures: volume 1: [A]⁶ B-H¹² I⁶ K²; volume 2: [A]² B-G¹² H⁶; volume 3: [A]² B-I¹² K²
Publisher's advertisements on 2 unnumbered pages at end of volume 1 and 2 unnumbered pages at the end of volume 3