Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Description

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Hellas a Lyrical Drama. London: Charles and James Ollie, 1822.
Paper, ink, leather

8vo (235 x 141 mm). Uncut, half-title; some intermittent spotting. Red morocco, gilt, by Maclehose.

Literature

Granniss pp.73-76; Wise, Ashley Library V, pp.84-85; Tinker 1902

Catalogue Note

first edition of the last work published in Shelley's lifetime. In April of 1822 Shelley wrote to his friend John Gisborne: "I have received Hellas, which is prettily printed and with fewer mistakes than any poem I ever published [sic]. Am I to thank you for the revision of the press?" Three months later, on 8 July 1822, he drowned in the Bay of Spezia.