OR,
THE MODERN PROMETHEUS.
1818 edition
This online text provides the original 1818 edition of Mary Shelley�s Frankenstein. Although both the 1818 and 1831 editions are public domain and long out of copyright, most online versions of Frankenstein, if not all, rely upon the 1831 text�a situation this project is designed to correct. Originally this project was intended to be expanded to include both published editions, with annotations, as well as a collation of all of the texts, including Mary Shelley�s original manuscript and fair copy as well as her annotations in the Thomas copy of the 1818 edition at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. However, J. Paul Hunter�s edition renders these further developments unnecessary, and is highly recommended.
Most errors in the original (1818) text have been left uncorrected, and will be indicated in the notes. A few minor obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected; in two cases where a reading from the 1831 edition is substituted, this is indicated by the use of square brackets: [ ]. Mary Shelley�s own notes, original to the 1818 edition, are indicated with angle brackets: < >.
Copytext:
[Shelley, Mary.] Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Editions consulted:
Hunter, J. Paul, ed. Frankenstein: A Norton Critical Edition. New
York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
Rieger, James, ed. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
(The 1818 Text). New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974.
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