Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus by SHELLEY, Mary - 1831

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley,, 1831. Revised, Corrected, and Illustrated with a New Introduction, by the Author. [Together with] SCHILLER, Johannes, The Ghost Seer Vol. II and BROWN, Charles Brockden, Edgar Huntly or The Sleep Walker. 2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, double black calf labels to each spine. Frontispiece and vignette title page. Ownership signature to front free endpaper of volume I, ownership inscription to title page of volume II, bookplate to volume II. Bindings rubbed, scuffed, and marked, label to volume II chipped, front free endpaper to volume II missing, some light spotting and marking to contents. A very good set. Third edition, the final definitive text and the first edition to be illustrated, the first really popular edition of the novel. Mary Shelley incorporated most of the changes introduced by William Godwin into the 1823 second edition as well as numerous other revisions, including an entirely new chapter and the famous "Introduction" in which she elaborates the tale of the novel's genesis at the nocturnal storytelling session with Shelley, Byron and Polidori at the Villa Diodati. Mary lived for twenty more years, but the 1831 edition is her final text revision. The frontispiece is the first visual depiction of Frankenstein and the Creature. The novel was issued in Bentley's Standard Novels Series, with the final third of the text in the volume printing the first part of The Ghost-Seer, which is completed in the second volume and is more often than not missing.