The Dream. By the Author of Frankenstein. [Extracted from 'The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXII'.]
Author:
'The Author of Frankenstein' [Mary Shelley]
Publication details:
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832.]
£56.00
SKU: 11204
12mo, 18 pp (paginated 21-38) + one engraving (facing p.24). Good, on lightly-aged paper, with the engraving somewhat foxed; in good modern grey card wraps, marbled endpapers, and printed label on front. First appearance in printed form. On nine leaves disbound from 'The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXII', edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds. Mary Shelley's story is on the seventeen pages 22-38, with the drophead title 'THE DREAM. | BY THE AUTHOR OF FRANKENSTEIN. | Chi dice mal d'amore | Dice una falsità. | ITALIAN SONG.' The engraving, by Charles Heath from Miss L. Sharpe, is titled 'Constance'. P.21 carries a sonnet by Sir Archibald Edmonstone and an epigram by Lord Holland.