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The clothbound Frankenstein lying flat, its front board stamped in gold with the title and author inside a double-ruled frame, and the pale gold ribbon marker.
The first printing.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

A young scientist builds a living creature from the dead and runs from it the moment it opens its eyes. An explorer hears the whole story on the Arctic ice.

Availability
Available for delivery beginning June 2027. Review copies are available now.
Often read in
Grades 9–12
First published
1818
This edition
The 1818 first-edition text, in three volumes.
Pages
214
Prompts
27, one at the close of each letter and chapter
ISBN
979-8-951164-00-1
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From the book

A prompt from this edition.

Every letter and chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.

Commonplace

The creature demands a companion “as hideous as myself,” claiming a right to the sympathy no one will grant him. Is the demand justice or extortion? And does a maker owe his creature the fellowship he was denied? Weigh his terms before Victor answers.

Printed at the close of Volume II, Chapter IX, on page 133 of the printed book.
The printed book

Inside the first printing.

Frankenstein open at pages 132 and 133: numbered lines, a ruled margin down the outside of each page, and the COMMONPLACE prompt at the end of Volume II.
Pages 132 and 133. The ruled margin runs down the outside of each page, and every fifth line is numbered.
The front endpapers of Frankenstein: pencil studies of the creature’s head from several angles.
The printed endpapers: pencil studies of the creature’s head.
The back endpapers of Frankenstein: the same pencil studies, laid out differently.
The back endpapers: the same studies, laid out differently.
The title page of the first printing of Frankenstein on cream paper, with the gold ribbon at the foot.
The title page of the first printing.
Page 133 of Frankenstein as it prints: the last lines of Volume II, the words End of Volume II, and the COMMONPLACE prompt, with the ruled margin at the right.
Page 133 as printed: the close of Volume II and its prompt.
The first printing lying flat, its spine stamped in gold: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Juniata Classics, with the ribbon marker trailing from the pages.
The spine of the first printing.
The book

Specifications

As printed and bound for the first printing.

The page in detail

  • Size7 × 10 inches
  • Pages214
  • BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
  • CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
  • PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
  • EndpapersPrinted with the same pencil studies of the creature’s head at front and back, laid out differently
  • RibbonPale gold marker
  • The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
  • Prompts27, one at the close of each letter and chapter
  • ISBN979-8-951164-00-1
  • MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio; the first printing was printed and bound in China
Grades 9–12

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