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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian a Romance. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford. London: J.J. Stockdale, 1811.
- Paper, ink, leather
12mo (173 x 100 mm). Half-title; light spotting to first few leaves. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rosette stamped spine, gilt; joints rubbed. Cloth case.
Scarce first edition of Shelley's second gothic romance, actually written before he went to Oxford. He apparently thought that this sort of fiction would make money, and financed the printing of the book himself, assuming that it was "a thing which almost mechanically sells to circulating libraries." In fact he was wrong, and St. Irvyne was little noticed.
Scarce first edition of Shelley's second gothic romance, actually written before he went to Oxford. He apparently thought that this sort of fiction would make money, and financed the printing of the book himself, assuming that it was "a thing which almost mechanically sells to circulating libraries." In fact he was wrong, and St. Irvyne was little noticed.
Literature
Bleiler, p. 178; Granniss 5; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 492;