Francis Barrett's Lives of the Alchemystical Philosophers with a Critical Catalogue
of Books on Occult Chemistry (1815) was listed in the advertisement sheet attached
to Lackington's edition of Frankenstein in 1818. Revised and republished in 1888 by
Arthur Edward Waite, this work contains brief accounts of two of the young Victor
Frankenstein's favorite authors: Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus.