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.
Content: 12mo. v. 1 signatures: [A]⁶, B-H¹², I⁶, K²
Content: Advertisements at back of v. 1, 2 p.

Physical Description

Extent: xxi, 181, [2] p.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b13399796
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6c511e90-1121-0133-c1d9-60f81dd2b63c

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Type Of Resource

Text

Date Issued

1818

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus, Volume I" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1818. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6c511e90-1121-0133-c1d9-60f81dd2b63c

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1818). Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus, Volume I Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6c511e90-1121-0133-c1d9-60f81dd2b63c

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus, Volume I" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6c511e90-1121-0133-c1d9-60f81dd2b63c

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