Shelley, Percy Bysshe

8vo (230 x 142 mm). Uncut; a few pages with light spotting. Original boards, spine label; minor rubbing to extremities, but unrepaired.

Margaret Jane, Countess of Mountcashell; by descent to Signor Neri Farina Cini (sale, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1964, lot 414); Nowell-Smith (bookplates)

Forman, Shelley 59; Granniss 54; Hayward 228

first edition,  in the original boards, with a good association, the "Tighe" ownership signature on the endpaper refers to George William Tighe, who hosted Margaret Jane, Countess of Mountcashell, for several years at Pisa, where they became close friends to Shelley. The present volume remained by descent in Lady Mountcashell's family until it was sold in our London rooms in 1964. This is the second issue, the contents leaf being a cancel. Two minor pen corrections on pages 211 and 220 are in an unidentified hand. When found in boards, examples are either restored or in poor condition.