{"id":8974,"date":"2012-09-25T17:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T22:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2012-09-25T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:05:21","slug":"lord-byrons-autographed-copy-of-frankenstein-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=8974","title":{"rendered":"Lord Byron&#8217;s Autographed Copy of Frankenstein Up for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of interesting association copies in my library, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolpinchefsky\/2012\/09\/10\/for-sale-lord-byrons-copy-of-mary-shelleys-frankenstein\/\">a first edition of <b>Frankenstein<\/b> inscribed to Lord Byron by the author<\/a> blows away anything I have by a good measure. That&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterharrington.co.uk\/pages\/events-and-fairs-ph\/news\/\">bookseller Peter Harrington<\/a> is offering up for a mere \u00a3350,000 or so (which, at this particular moment, comes out to $566,985.26). I&#8217;ll check my recliner for spare change, but I think that&#8217;s more than I&#8217;m willing to spend right now. (Plus it&#8217;s only the first volume of the three volume set, and you can&#8217;t expect me to lower my standards and buy an incomplete set, can you?)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterharrington.co.uk\/images\/lord-byron-frankenstein.png\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve refrained from putting up a post on it until now because <del>I&#8217;m incredibly lazy<\/del> I was waiting for the bookseller to put up a full prospectus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterharrington.co.uk\/content\/catalogues\/Frankenstein.pdf\">which he has now done<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the relevant description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[SHELLEY, Mary.] Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, &#038; Jones, 1818. First edition, presentation copy to Lord Byron, with the author\u2019s autograph inscription to the front flyleaf: \u201cTo Lord Byron from the Author\u201d. An unsurpassable association copy of the best known fiction of the Romantic era,  perhaps the most evocative presentation copy conceivable in all nineteenth-century literature. <\/p>\n<p>Condition: Vol. 1 only (of 3), duodecimo (184 \u00d7 114 mm). Bound for presentation in contemporary calf, boards ruled in gilt with a double fillet enclosing a leaf-and-flower-head roll in blind with floral tools in blind at inside corners, marbled endpapers, green  silk book mark. Inscribed by the author on the binder\u2019s blank immediately preceding the half-title; complete with the half-title and final advert leaf. Spine perished (a small fragment with a single blind-tooled oriel preserved in archival paper tipped-in on the rear pastedown), inner hinges expertly repaired by James Brockman, boards rubbed and a little stained, tips just worn, a few faint spots and some light offsetting, a tall, well-margined copy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Worth that much? Probably. Though I would really want the second and third volumes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of interesting association copies in my library, but a first edition of Frankenstein inscribed to Lord Byron by the author blows away anything I have by a good measure. That&#8217;s what bookseller Peter Harrington is offering up for a mere \u00a3350,000 or so (which, at this particular moment, comes out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,5],"tags":[1973,590,97,1274,1979,1970],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-bookselling","tag-first-edition","tag-frankenstein","tag-horror","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8995,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/8995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}