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What made Lackington’s the ideal publisher for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

When Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus appeared anonymously in January 1818, its title page read: London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, Finsbury Square. At first glance, the connection between Mary Shelley’s novel and the sprawling London book emporium known as The Temple of the Muses might seem accidental. But Lackington’s didn’t only…
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