NMLP P-037021 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (London) · 1818

The 1831 single-volume Colburn & Bentley 'Standard Novels' edition is frequently mistaken for an early first — it is a revised later text with a new frontispiece and introduction, not the 1818. Any one-volume copy, any copy naming Mary Shelley on the title page, or any copy lacking the Paradise Lost epigraph is not the 1818 first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-037021 for "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037021, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).