Title: Preface (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus)

Title: Preface (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) Title Record # 1313119
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Date: 1818-03-11
Type: ESSAY
Language: English

Note: Do not confuse this with the 1831 Introduction by Mary Shelley, first published in that year's revised edition of Frankenstein. This preface is "signed" as: "Marlow, September 1817." This is sometimes incorrectly viewed as if it had been written by "Marlow" (i.e. as a pseudonym). In fact, this refers to the town of Marlow, in the Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England. After their marriage, in March 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley moved to Marlow, where they lived until March 1818. The preface is sometimes attributed to Mary Shelley, but more commonly attributed to Percy, and she wrote in the 1831 introduction, "As far as I can recollect, it was entirely written by him."

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Year	Title
unknown	Preface (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) [as by P. B. Shelley]
1818	Preface (Frankenstein) [as by uncredited]
1931	Preface (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) [as by uncredited]
1971	Preface (Frankenstein) [as by uncredited]
1992	Preface (by P. B. Shelley, 1818) (Frankenstein) [as by P. B. Shelley]
2018^ⓘ In the 2018 anthology (viewed as Amazon "Look inside"; ebook only, no page numbers) the heading of this essay is "Original Preface to the 1818 edition" and its closing matches the original, "Marlow, September, 1877". There it follows the Introduction to the 1831 Edition, whose closing is "M.W.S." over "London, October 15, 1831". That the 2018 publication is genuinely uncredited may be debated, as it appears in a subsection of the anthology that is credited to Mary Shelley; the Contents list appears designed to identify all of the contributors; the Foreword and Publisher's Note don't mention it. (The closing essay Biographies & Sources is not in this database, and the Amazon "Look" shows no part of it.)	Original Preface to the 1818 Edition (Frankenstein) [as by uncredited]

Year	Language	Title
1982	Italian	Prefazione all'edizione del 1818 (Frankenstein)
2001	Croatian	Predgovor prvom zdanju (Frankenstein ili moderni Prometej) [as by uncredited]
2006^ⓘTranslated by Friedrich Polakovics	German	Vorrede (Frankenstein) [as by uncredited]
2006^ⓘTranslated by Elsa Hoog	Dutch	Woord vooraf (Frankenstein) [as by uncredited]
2017^ⓘTranslated by Alexander Pechmann	German	Vorwort (Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus) [as by uncredited]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus	1818-03-11	uncredited	Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones			xii+ 181+ 156+ 192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus	1931-00-00	Mary W. Shelley	Grosset & Dunlap			xiv+ 240	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Mach Tey
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus	1934-00-00	Mary Shelley	Limited Editions Club			xvii+ 257	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus	1965-12-00	Mary Shelley	Signet / New American Library of Canada	CD329	C$0.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	224	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tsao
Frankenstein	1967-04-00	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Scholastic Book Services	SBS T 942	$0.45^?$: US dollar	271	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Margaret Howlett
Frankenstein	1971-04-00	Mary Shelley	Bantam Pathfinder	HP6965	$0.60^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 206	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	James Bama
Dracula / Frankenstein	1973-00-00	Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker	International Collectors Library			655	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Frankenstein	1980-00-00	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Watermill Press (Watermill Classic)	0-89375-401-3	$1.95^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 333	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Frankenstein	1982-03-10	Mary Shelley	Mondadori (Oscar #1494)	21102-9	Lit 3,500^?Lit: Italian lira	234	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ferenc Pintér^?Ferenc Pinter
Frankenstein	1992-00-00	Mary Shelley	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)	0-14-043362-7	£3.99^?£: UK pound	lvi+ 261	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Joseph Wright
Frankenstein	1994-02-00	Mary Shelley	Penguin Books (Penguin Popular Classics)	0-14-062030-3	£1.00^?£: UK pound	215	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Thomas Eakins
Frankenstein	1994-11-00	Mary Shelley	Tor	0-812-55150-8	$4.99^?$: US dollar	xx+ 236	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Boris Vallejo
Frankenstein	1996-00-00	Mary Shelley	W. W. Norton & Company (Norton Critical Editions)	0-393-97938-5		xii+ 336	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Caspar David Friedrich
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus	1999-00-00	Mary Shelley	Wordsworth Editions (Wordsworth Classics)	1-85326-023-1		xxv+ 176	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Frankenstein ili moderni Prometej	2001-11-00	Mary Shelley	Šareni dućan^?Sareni ducan Shareni duchan ( Stranci u noći^?Stranci u noci #5)	953-6683-13-X		255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Antonio Grgić^?Antonio Grgic Antonio Grgich
Frankenstein	2003-10-00	Mary Shelley	Bantam Books (Bantam Classic)	0-553-21247-8	$4.95^?$: US dollar	xxxiii+ 216	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Frankenstein	2006-00-00	Mary W. Shelley	Area	3-89996-836-0	€2.95^?€: Euro	296	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Frankenstein	2006-03-02	Mary Shelley	VUM (Boek de film #3)	90-8691-003-3	€1.00^?€: Euro	250	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Frankenstein	2011-12-00	Mary Shelley	Tor	978-1-4668-0480-7	$3.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Boris Vallejo
Frankenstein	2012-00-00	Mary Shelley	W. W. Norton & Company (Norton Critical Editions)	978-0-393-92793-1	£9.99^?£: UK pound	xviii+ 524	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Caspar David Friedrich
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus	2012-00-00	Mary Shelley	Sterling Publishing (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions)	978-1-4351-3768-4	$6.98^?$: US dollar	xxx+ 214	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Neil Holden
Frankenstein	2012-00-00	Mary Shelley	W. W. Norton & Company (Norton Critical Editions)	978-0-393-92793-1		xviii+ 524	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Caspar David Friedrich
Frankenstein	2012-00-00	Mary Shelley	Tor	978-0-8125-5150-1	$4.99^?$: US dollar	xx+ 236	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Boris Vallejo
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus	2012-11-23	uncredited	Project Gutenberg	41445	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus	2017-10-02	Mary Shelley	Manesse	978-3-7175-2370-3	€22.00^?€: Euro	464	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Mary Shelley Horror Stories	2018-12-15	ed. Laura Bulbeck	Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy)	978-1-78664-807-5	£20.00^?£: UK pound	480	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus	date unknown	Mary Shelley	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)	0-14-043237-X	£3.99^?£: UK pound	270	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Joseph Wright of Derby
Frankenstein	date unknown	Mary Shelley	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)	0-14-043362-7	£2.50^?£: UK pound	lviii+ 261	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Joseph Wright
Frankenstein	date unknown	Mary Shelley	Perma-Bound (Perma-Bound Classics)		$10.00^?$: US dollar	xx+ 236	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Boris Vallejo

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