Mary Shelley, Frederick Schiller

A third edition, fourth printing of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, bound with The Ghost-Seer by Frederick Schiller.

• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).
• Frederick Schiller (German).
• Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus - bound with - The Ghost-Seer.
• London: Richard Bentley, 1839.
• Bound in contemporary half tan calf, blind tooled spine, hand written paper spine label.

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.