[SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT]. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones 1818. 3 vols., 12mo, 175 x 107mm. (6 7/8 x 4 1/8in.), brown levant morocco, covers gilt panelled with corner ornaments of three gilt roses, spines in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, gilt roses in the rest; turn-ins gilt, green morocco doublures, light blue watered silk free endpages, t.e.g., half-titles in vols. 1 and 3 slightly torn at lower inner blank margin, a few old dampstains in or near gutters throughout, slightly browned and spotted. FIRST EDITION, half-titles present, advertisements not preserved. With an autograph letter from Mary Shelley to Lady Manners Sutton, n.p., n.d., 1 p. 8vo, defective with part of signature lost, tipped to front endpaper of vol. 1, detached, in anticipation of a visit.