SHELLEY, Mary
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
London: The Folio Society, [2022]
Illustrated by BARRETT, Angela
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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
Published by The Folio Society in 2022 as an edition limited to 750 copies signed by the artist and 25 lettered copies Hors de Commerce. This is copy number 538.
- Bound in leather blocked in silver and black foils with a design by Angela Barrett
- Set in Clifford with Operetta as display
- Printed on Abbey Pure Rough paper
- 232 pages
- Frontispiece and seven colour plates printed on Arctic Volume Ivory paper
- Nine black-and-white vignettes
- Limitation label signed by Angela Barrett
- Silvered on all three page-edges
- Ribbon marker
- Cloth-covered slipcase blocked in silver foil with a design by Angela Barrett
- 10˝ x 6¾˝
Artist Angela Barrett’s contribution to this stunning limited edition is extraordinary. Created in series with her remarkable illustrations for Dracula, the eight colour plates, each one full of foreboding, are set within elaborate black-and-white borders. Nine superb vignettes represent further aspects of the story, from a finely detailed feather pen to an exquisite scene of the steeples of London, and her work is completed with a splendid design blocked in silver and black foils on the leather binding and another on the slipcase. Each book is signed by the artist on a hand-numbered limitation label. Award-winning biographer Richard Holmes has contributed an exclusive new introduction focusing on the scientific influences and cultural repercussions of the novel. From the gruesome disembodied hand reaching up the spine to the final haunting vignette, this limited edition is the perfect presentation of Mary Shelley’s ‘hideous progeny’ – her own definition of her gothic masterpiece.
Condition
Fine book with clean and bright pages; tightly bound. Silvered edges without any sign of wear. Stored on a shelf since purchase and only seldomly flipped through. In equally fine slipcase with only a speckle or two of dust. Will be shipped double boxed, and will include its original custom-sized box from The Folio Society.
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