Wrightson worked on his illustrations for the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley FRANKENSTEIN illustrated book from late 1975 to 1983. During that time, he made money to keep the project going by releasing three FRANKENSTEIN portfolios, in 1977, 1978, and 1980. Before the book was finally completed in 1983.
Here are the pages in the
FRANKENSTEIN II portfolio (1978).
And the pages in the
FRANKENSTEIN III portfolio (1980).
FRANKENSTEIN II has five pages used in the published book, pages 113, 141 151, 154, and 171. Two remaining images, the beautiful cover, and gravedigging page, appear in FRANKENSTEIN: THE LOST PAGES.
FRANKENSTEIN III has all images not seen in the final book.
All the portfolio pages and covers are collected either in the actual book, or in THE LOST FRANKENSTEIN PAGES. Including the decorative covers for all three portfolios.
I had less luck finding the
first FRANKENSTEIN portfolio (from 1977).
Its contents are all in the FRANKENSTEIN illustrated book
(the cover is the title page of the book, page 5. And the interior plates are pages 28, 40, 43, 61, 73 and 91).
I have II and III, I never managed to find the first one. But the first two are mostly pages in the final book, whereas III has the bonus of being unused and less seen pages.
