Lot 571
  • 571

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in four acts with other poems. C. and J. Ollier, 1820
  • paper
8vo, first edition, second issue with A3 cancelled, half-title, later red crushed morocco gilt for William Brown, Edinburgh, gilt edges, without final advertisement leaf

Provenance

Viscount Birkenhead, bookplate and crowned initial gilt on upper cover; Fernand Spaak, bookplate

Literature

Hayward 228; Granniss 54; Wise, Ashley Library, V, p.74; Tinker 1898

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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