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28-page Frankenstein playbill w/ portrait, 1826

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28-page Frankenstein playbill w/ portrait, 1826
28-page Frankenstein playbill w/ portrait, 1826
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Title: Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster! A Peculiar Romantic Melo-Dramatic Pantomimic Spectacle, in Two Acts. Founded principally on Mrs. Shelley's singular Work, entitled. "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus;" and partly on the French Piece, "Le Magicien et le Monstre." By H.M. Milner. The Only Edition Correctly Marked from the Prompter's Book, with the Stage Business, Situation and Directions
Author: [Shelley, Mary W.]; Milner, H[enry] M.
Description: 28 pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of "Mr. O. Smith as the Monster in Frankenstein." Figure drawing at end of text showing "Disposition of the Characters when the Curtain falls." 5½x3¼, bound in recent gilt-lettered brown cloth, new endpapers. "Duncombe's Edition." The first pictorial representation of the monster in print.Early and rare Frankenstein playbill, providing a narrative for an 1826 staged theatrical production "as it is performed at the London Theatres." Preceded only by the first two editions; this item actually precedes the scarce third London edition by five years. Lists characters and the actors who played them, listing "the Monster" with six asterisks only.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: J[ohn] Duncombe
Date Published: [1826]
Condition
Frontispiece and title page fore-edge margin trimmed (affecting first word letters on p. [5]), other margins apparently trimmed a bit; occasional small tan stains (including title and frontispiece); else good finely rebound.
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28-page Frankenstein playbill w/ portrait, 1826

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