First edition of Shelley's second novel Valperga.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).</li><li>Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca.</li><li>London: for G. &amp; W. B. Whittaker, 1823.</li><li>Bound in half tan speckled calf, gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled edges.</li></ul>

Valperga

A copy of H.M. Milner's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.<ul><li>By H.M. Milner after Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English, 1797-1851).</li><li>Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster!</li><li>London: J. Duncombe, n.d., [1826].</li><li>With the engraved frontis portrait plate, with Shelley's name misspelled "Shelly."</li><li>Hardbound in modern brown cloth, gilt title and date to front cover.</li></ul>

Frankenstein

Third edition, fourth printing of the first revised edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Mary+Shelley&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mary Shelley</a>'s masterpiece <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=frankenstein&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frankenstein</a>, and the last to contain an illustration with the first printing of the engraved frontis and additional engraved title-page dated 1831.<ul><li>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).</li><li>Frederick Schiller (German)[Author of The Ghost-Seer].&nbsp;</li><li>London: Richard Bentley, 1839.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original blind stamped straight grained brown-maroon cloth.</li></ul> In her introduction, Shelley contextualizes the creation of her tale: "It proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house. Some volumes of ghost stories, translated from the German into French, fell into our hands… 'We will each write a ghost story,' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to."

Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus, [bound with] The Ghost-Seer

A third edition, fourth printing of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Frankenstein&amp;redirect=true&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frankenstein</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Mary%20Shelley&amp;redirect=true&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mary Shelley</a>, bound with The Ghost-Seer by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Frederick%20Schiller&amp;redirect=true&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frederick Schiller</a>.<ul><li>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).</li><li>Frederick Schiller (German).</li><li>Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus - bound with - The Ghost-Seer.</li><li>London: Richard Bentley, 1839.</li><li>Bound in contemporary half tan calf, blind tooled spine, hand written paper spine label.</li></ul> The first revised edition of Shelley's masterpiece and the last to contain an illustration with the first printing of the engraved frontis and additional engraved title-page dated 1831. The frontis depicts the creature coming to life. In her introduction, Shelley contextualizes the creation of her tale: "It proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house. Some volumes of ghost stories, translated from the German into French, fell into our hands… 'We will each write a ghost story,' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to." This printing was apparently issued with and without the additional engraved frontis dated 1831.

Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus, bound with The Ghost-Seer

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