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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description
- Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem. London: printed by P.B. Shelley, 1813.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (180 x 110 mm). Imprints unmutilated. Elaborate red morocco gilt with green morocco onlays, morocco doublures, silk pastedowns and endleaves, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; barely noticeable restoration to joints.
Literature
Ashley 5:47; Forman 21; Granniss 15; Hayward 225.
Catalogue Note
first edition of the poet's first substantial poem; privately printed in an edition of just 250 copies, though only 70 were distributed at the time by Shelley personally (usually after removing his address from the title page - the present copy is free from this mutilation). A fine and very attractive example of a book that saw printer's jailed for the work being a blasphemous libel. No other edition appeared until a piracy of 1821.