Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus - the 1818 Text

This is the original edition which was published in 3 volumes. The cover photograph is of Volume 1.

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.

Pagination: volume 1: xii, 181, [3] pages; volume 2: [4], 156 pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages.

Publisher's advertisements on 2 unnumbered pages at end of volume 1 and 2 unnumbered pages at the end of volume 3.