Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

8vo, first edition, half-title, advertisement leaf at the end, original pink boards, printed label on spine, preserved in red folding box, boards slightly stained and soiled, label partially worn away, wear to extremities

Edmund Law Lushington, ownership signature on front free endpaper dated December 1832; Simon Nowell-Smith and Judith Adams Nowell-Smith, book-labels; Bertram Rota, Catalogue 300 (2002), The Simon Nowell-Smith Collection, item 675

Edmund Law Lushington was fellow and tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, one of the Cambridge Apostles and a close friend of Tennyson's, whose youngest sister Cecilia he married in 1842. Both the Apostles and Cecilia herself are celebrated in the epilogue to In Memoriam. Lushington translated Oenone and Crossing the Bar into Greek and also contributed to Hallam Lord Tennyson's memoir of his father.

Granniss p.82; Wise, Ashley Library p.89; Tinker 1905

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First edition of Shelley's poem inspired by the Peterloo Massacre.