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Mary Shelley’s Annotated Frankenstein

This copy of Frankenstein (PML 16799) contains extensive additions and emendations by Mary Shelley.

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Collections Spotlight, Summer 2023

June 6 through September 17, 2023

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of building collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

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A compleat collection of English proverbs : also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explanations. / By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray ... To which is added, (written by the same author) A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the northern, the other, to the southern counties. With An account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are found in England.

London : Printed for W. Otridge, S. Bladon [etc.], 1768.

PML 7223

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Several epistles given forth by two of the Lords faithful servants whom he sent to New-England, to bear witness to His everlasting truth and were there (by the priests, rulers, and professors) after cruel and long imprisonment, and inhumane whippings and banishment, put to death, for no other cause, but for keeping the commandments of God, and testimony of Jesus, William Robinson, William Leddra : here is also perfixed [sic] W.R. his testimony of his call to that service, for obedience unto which, he underwent the wrath of men, but hath obtained everlasting peace and rest with God.

Robinson, William, -1659.

London : [s.n.], 1669.

PML 19489

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Naps upon Parnassus : a sleepy muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened. Such voluntary and jovial copies of verses, as were lately receiv'd from some of the Wits of the Universities, in a frolick, dedicated to Gondibert's mistress by Captain Jones and others. Whereunto is added .. the Author's .. epistle to one of the Universities. [Signed, K.Q.] With the answer; together with two satyrical characters of his own, of a Temporizer and an Antiquary, etc. [and an "Advertisement to the reader," signed, Adoniram Banstittle, alias Tinderbox. Poems written in ridicule of Samuel Austin, by T. Sprat, T. Flatman and others].

Q., K.

London, 1658

PML 4225

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Cort verhael, vande ordre die sijne conincklicke majesteyt van Spagnien aen sijn generalissimo den graef de la Torre inde Bay de Todos los Sanctos gegeven heeft, om int werck te stellen al't ghene hy tot recuparatie van Brasil noodigh achten soude : Mitsgaders 't remarcabelste dat op de custe van deselve capitania, soo int ghevecht vande Spaensche vlote sterck 87 zeylen ende 41 Hollandtsche schepen als mede by de gene die hy te lande van de Bahia door de bossehen in 't lant gebracht hadde voorgevallen is van den 19 November tot den 28 February 1640. toe. / Beschreyven door den eerw. N.N.

N., N.

Amsterdam : I. van Hilten, [1640?]

PML 3395

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The New Testament of Jesus Christ : with arguments of books and chapters: with annotations, and other helps, for the better understanding the text, and especially for the discovery of corruptions in divers late translations: and for clearing up religious controversies of the present times. To which are added tables of the Epistles and Gospels, controversies, and heretical corruptions. / The text is faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Greek, and other editions in divers languages: and the annotations &c. are affix'd to it by the English College then resident in Rhemes.

[London? : William Raynor?], 1738.

PML 17785

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The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation / by Isaac Walton ; and Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream / by Charles Cotton ; with copious notes, for the most part original, a bibliographical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing-books, from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton and his writings / by the American editor ; to which is added an appendix, including illustrative ballads, music, papers on American fishing, and the most complete catalogue of books on angling, etc., ever printed ; also, a general index to the whole work. Part I [-II].

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

New York and London : Wiley & Putnam ..., 1847.

PML 9336

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Positively the last week. The original salamander. Wonders never cease! The great phenomena! of nature, Signora Josephine Giraldelli ... is now exhibiting at 349, Strand, between Exeter 'change and Catherine-Street, the powers of resistance against heat. She will commence her performance by passing plates of red hot iron over her legs! She will then stamp on a plate of red hot iron, with her naked feet, afterwards draw it over her hair and across her tongue after which she will, without symptom of pain, wash her hands in boiling oil; and take a part of the same into her mouth ...

[London : s.n., ca. 1820]

PML 146639, p. 474c

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The history of the pirates : containing the lives of those noted pirate captains, Misson, Bowen, Kidd, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly, Howard, Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, North, and their several crews. : Also, an account of the piracies and cruelties of John Augur, William Cunningham, Dennis Mackarthy, William Dowling, William Lewis, Thomas Mooris, George Bendall, and William Ling, who were tried, condemmed and executed at Nassau, New-Province, on the 12th of October, 1718. : To which is added, a correct account of the late piracies committed in the West Indies; and the expedition of Com. Porter.

Haverhill, Mass. : Published by Thomas Carey, 1825.

PML 75205

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