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Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
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Description
- The Poetical Works... Kelmscott Press, 1895
8vo, limited to 256 copies of which this is one of 250 on paper, printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut borders, title and initials, unopened, original limp vellum
Provenance
Purchased from Deighton and Bell, Cambridge, in 1974.
Literature
Peterson A29
Catalogue Note
fine copies.
As noted by Peterson, the usual silk ties were not used in this edition. "The ties were omitted from the Shelley as an experiment, as some people don't care for them" wrote Cockerell.