Research Guides: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Special Collections

Special Collections

Below is a selection of works by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and related authors/poets available in the Literature and Rare Book Collections in Special Collections and University Archives. All these items can be requested online and viewed in the Maryland Room in Hornbake Library. For more information or questions about our literary holdings, contact us.

Modern Editions of Frankenstein

Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Call Number: Special Collections Folio PR5397 .F7 1934
Publication Date: New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1934.
Printed with an introduction by Edmund Lester Pearson and illustrations by Everett Henry
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus by Mary W. Shelley
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR5397 .F7 1945
Publication Date: New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., [1945?]
Armed services edition.
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus: the 1818 text in three volumes
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR5397 .F7 1984
Publication Date: Berkeley: University of California Press, c1984.
Illustrated by Barry Moser and with an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.

Other Works by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks D919 .S54
Publication Date: London, E. Moxon, 1844.
Mary Shelley’s journal by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Call Number: KA Porter Stacks PR5398 .A28 1947
Publication Date: Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1947.
Edited by Frederick L. Jones.

Works by Mary Wollstonecraft

Four new letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and Helen M. Williams by Mary Wollstonecraft
Call Number: KA Porter Stacks PR4719.G5 A84
Publication Date: Berkeley, University of California press, 1937.
Edited by Benjamin P. Kurtz and Carrie C. Autrey.
A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
Call Number: Rare Stacks HQ1596 .W6 1796
Publication Date: London : Printed for J. Johnson ..., 1796.
The third edition.
A vindication of the rights of woman, with strictures on political and moral subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
Call Number: Rare Stacks HQ1596 .G62
Publication Date: Philadelphia, Printed for M. Carey, l794.

Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Posthumous poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5402 1824
Publication Date: London : [Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt,] 1824.
The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5402 1839bb
Publication Date: London, Edward Moxon, 1839.
The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With his tragedies and lyrical dramas. To which are added his essays and fragments, history of a six weeks’ tour through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; letters from abroad &c. by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5402 1839
Publication Date: London, Ward, Lock and Co., 1839.
Edited by his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5402 1840
Publication Date: London: E. Moxon, 1840.
Edited by Mrs. Shelley.
The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5402 1854
Publication Date: London, Edward Moxon, 1854.
Edited by Mrs. Shelley.
The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5402 1892b
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1892.
3d ed. / with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Queen Mab: a philosophical poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5417 .A1 1821
Publication Date: New York : Printed by William Baldwin and Co. ..., 1821
The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: with his life by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5402 1834
Publication Date: London : J. Ascham, 1834

Other Authors/Poets from the Romantic/Victorian Period

The lover’s tale by Alfred Tennyson
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5566 .L5 1879a
Publication Date: London: C. Kegan Paul, 1879.
Maud: a monodrama by Alfred Tennyson
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5567 .A1 1893
Publication Date: Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, 1893.
Ode on the death of the duke of Wellington by Alfred Tennyson
Call Number: Rare Stacks DA68.12.W4 T32
Publication Date: London: Edward Moxon, 1852.
The princess; a medley by Alfred Tennyson
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5571 .A1 1848
Publication Date: Boston, W. D. Ticknor, 1848.
The poems of John Keats by John Keats
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4830 .E94
Publication Date: Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894.
The poems of John Keats by John Keats
Call Number: Barnes PR4830 .F06
Publication Date: London, J.M. Dent & co.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. [1906]
The vampyre; a tale by John William Polidori
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4478 .A12 1819
Publication Date: London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.
Childe Harold’s pilgrimage. A romaunt by Lord Byron
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4357 .A1 1812b
Publication Date: London, John Murray, 1812.
Manfred, a dramatic poem by Lord Byron
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4365 .A1 1817d
Publication Date: London, John Murray, 1817.
The works of Lord Byron: including the suppressed poems by Lord Byron
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4350 .E28
Publication Date: Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani ..., 1827.
The works of Lord Byron; in verse and prose. Including his letters, journals, etc., with a sketch of his life by Lord Byron
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4350 .E39
Publication Date: New York, A. V. Blake; Boston, Otis, Broaders, & co.; [etc., etc.] 1839.
Mazeppa : a poem by Lord Byron
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4372 .M29 1819b
Publication Date: London : J. Murray, 1819.
The bride of Abydos: a Turkish tale by Lord Byron
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4355 .A1 1813
Publication Date: London: Printed by T. Davison for J. Murray, 1813.
2nd edition.
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect by Robert Burns
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4300.1787 .L6
Publication Date: London, Printed for A. Strahan [etc.] Edinburgh, W. Creech, 1787.
The poetical works of Robert Burns; with his life by Robert Burns
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4300 1808.A5
Publication Date: Alnwick, Printed by W. Davison, 1808.
Ornamented with engravings on wood by Mr. Bewick, from original designs by Mr. Thurston.
The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings. To which are prefixed, some observation on the character and condition of Scottish peasantry. by Robert Burns
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4300 1801.P3
Publication Date: Philadelphia, Printed by Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1801.
Poems chosen out of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4478.A35 E4 1896
Publication Date: Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, 1896.
The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4479 .A1 1858
Publication Date: New York, D. Appleton, 1858.
Halidon Hill: a dramatic sketch from Scottish history by Sir Walter Scott
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5313 .H3 1822
Publication Date: Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London : Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822.
The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic, and critical by William Blake
Call Number: Rare Stacks ND497.B6 E4
Publication Date: London: B. Quaritch, 1893.
Edited with lithographs of the illustrated "Prophetic books," and a memoir and interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats.
The prelude : or, Growth of a poet’s mind. An autobiographical pom by William Wordsworth
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5864 .A1 1850
Publication Date: New York; D. Appleton, 1850.
The white doe of Rylstone, or, The fate of the Nortons: poem by William Wordsworth
Call Number: Rare Folio PR5868 .A1 1815
Publication Date: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
Poems, in two volumes by William Wordsworth
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5850 .E07
Publication Date: London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
The poetical works of Wordsworth : with memoir, explanatory notes, etc. by William Wordsworth
Call Number: Barnes PR5850 .E00
Publication Date: New York: Hurst & Company, [18--]