The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX
- London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst, Chance, and Co. / R. Jennings, 1828
London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst, Chance, and Co. / R. Jennings, 1828. Very Good. London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst, Chance, and Co., 65, St. Paul's Churchyard, and R. Jennings, 2, Poultry, [1828]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's magenta moire silk, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt, binder's ticket of F. Westley to rear pastedown; vii,[1],360pp.; engraved presentation plate with initials "S.W.," frontispiece and added title page, sixteen (16) leaves of plates throughout (collated complete). Some scuffing at corners and spine ends with brief exposure, front hinge just starting, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy, housed in modern linen clamshell box. Rather pretty orange contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of George Gregory, "Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra."
Magnificent example of this scarce keepsake volume with contributions by Sir Walter Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley, listed here simply as "the author of Frankenstein." The short story appears on p. 80 under the title "The Sisters of Albano," adorned with an accompanying engraving. As with her masterpiece "Frankenstein," Shelley returns to the nesting story within a story which opens with a pleasure party on the banks of Lake Albano observing a young couple, a young worker with a rifle and his female companion. Thus sets off this tragic examination of "the mingling of love with crime," the story of sisters Maria and Anina, the elder a devout nun, the younger an adolescent who commits a crime for love that lands her before the executioner. In an act of desperation the sisters exchange garbs when Maria comes to visit Anina in order to save her but tragedy comes for all the characters in the end.
Lyles D1c.
Magnificent example of this scarce keepsake volume with contributions by Sir Walter Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley, listed here simply as "the author of Frankenstein." The short story appears on p. 80 under the title "The Sisters of Albano," adorned with an accompanying engraving. As with her masterpiece "Frankenstein," Shelley returns to the nesting story within a story which opens with a pleasure party on the banks of Lake Albano observing a young couple, a young worker with a rifle and his female companion. Thus sets off this tragic examination of "the mingling of love with crime," the story of sisters Maria and Anina, the elder a devout nun, the younger an adolescent who commits a crime for love that lands her before the executioner. In an act of desperation the sisters exchange garbs when Maria comes to visit Anina in order to save her but tragedy comes for all the characters in the end.
Lyles D1c.