First Routledge edition, published for their pocket library. Sextodecimo (141x95mm). In the publisher’s binding of quarter brown cloth, lettered gilt to spine, over marbled paper covered boards. Advertisement leaf to rear advertising Routledge’s Pocket Library, with this title listed as item 31.
 
A clean near fine copy, much more attractive than one usually encounters. The advertisement leaf is roughly cut, but not affecting the text.
 
Routledge’s pocket Frankenstein was first published as here in 1888, before being reissued in 1891. It is an attractive and collectable nineteenth century edition of Frankenstein.
 
PROVENANCE: Ownership inscription of one “I.J. Smith May 1920” to the front free endpaper.