Lot 100
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Description

  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Zastrozzi, A Romance. By P.B.S. London: for G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1810.
  • Paper, ink, leather
12mo (161 x 100 mm). Half-title present. Sidney Cockerell binding of red morocco gilt with green morocco onlays to spine, stamp-signed and dated 1903; minor rubbing to joints and raised bands.

rare first edition of Shelley's first published work, a gothic romance written during his school days at Eton and published when he was eighteen.

Provenance

 Chauncey Brewster Tinker (booklabel); Sylvain S. Brunschwig (booklabel) 

Literature

Ashley 5:47; Forman Shelley I; Grannis I