Frankenstein: A Romantic Drama in Three Acts by Richard Peake (Mary Shelley)
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Frankenstein: A Romantic Drama in Three Acts by Richard Peake (Mary Shelley)
$4,000.00 USD
Frankenstein: A Romantic Drama in Three Acts by Richard Peake (Mary Shelley)
Authors: Richard Brinsley Peake, Mary Shelley
Location: London
Publisher: John Dicks
Date: [1883?]
Edition: First Edition
Features: Original Complete Edition, stated. Sixteen pages. Dick's Standard Plays, Number 431. Also called Frankenstein. Orange paper wrappers with engraved pictorial scene on cover.
Book Condition: Good: Bright pictorial cover to wrappers. Fragile wrappers reglued with wear to edges.
Notes: 1883 date from ISFDB. Title listed as Presumption or the Fate of Frankenstein as that is the well-known title. Listed as Frankenstein by Worldcat with date [1883?]. Peake wrote Presumption or the Fate of Frankenstein with additional elements to Shelley's story--first performed in 1823. Trinity College Dick's Standard Plays Collection: "By the mid-1860s Dicks’ cheap reprints of Shakespeare led to another expansion of the flourishing business. Around the same time he began publishing ‘Dicks’ standard plays’. Over 1,000 titles were published over a twenty-year period –averaging more than one a week! "
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Authors: Richard Brinsley Peake, Mary Shelley
Location: London
Publisher: John Dicks
Date: [1883?]
Edition: First Edition
Features: Original Complete Edition, stated. Sixteen pages. Dick's Standard Plays, Number 431. Also called Frankenstein. Orange paper wrappers with engraved pictorial scene on cover.
Book Condition: Good: Bright pictorial cover to wrappers. Fragile wrappers reglued with wear to edges.
Notes: 1883 date from ISFDB. Title listed as Presumption or the Fate of Frankenstein as that is the well-known title. Listed as Frankenstein by Worldcat with date [1883?]. Peake wrote Presumption or the Fate of Frankenstein with additional elements to Shelley's story--first performed in 1823. Trinity College Dick's Standard Plays Collection: "By the mid-1860s Dicks’ cheap reprints of Shakespeare led to another expansion of the flourishing business. Around the same time he began publishing ‘Dicks’ standard plays’. Over 1,000 titles were published over a twenty-year period –averaging more than one a week! "
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