Frankenstein The Man Demon; or, The Modern Prometheus (Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1865). [5425]

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1st “Cottage Library” edition. Hardback, original maroon cloth. 13cm x 8cm. Yellow endpapers. Contents: pages generally very good, clean and tight (a little fragile between pages 304 & 305). Just a few slight pencil marks and a few slight brown spots. Owner’s name at end of text. Owner’s signature fep. Pencil notes rubbed out fep and inside front board. Front inner hinge neatly reinforced. Otherwise pages generally very good and clean. Boards: left side of front board generously faded and chipped/scuffed (professionally restored). Spine re-laid. Corners worn and rounded. Top and tail headbands of spine neatly reinforced where frayed and fragile. Spine darkened, with title barely visible. A rare “Cottage Library” edition of Shelley’s “Frankenstein – The Man Demon” in original fragile Cottage Library binding. 319 pp. In 1816 Mary Wollstonecraft first conceived the idea of ‘Frankenstein’ whilst staying at a small cottage with her sister Claire and Percy Shelley in Geneva. The cottage was very close to the fellow author and patron Lord George Byron, who was by this time a household name. The following year, on their return to England, Mary and Shelley rented a house in Marlow, Bucks where she completed her novel ‘Frankenstein’. Eventually the novel was first published anonymously in 1818. This small “Cottage Library Edition” uses Mary’s full title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.