Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Description

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems. C and J Ollier, 1820
Paper

8vo, FIRST EDITION, second issue (with "Miscellaneous" spelt correctly on contents leaf A3), half-title, 2pp. publisher's adverts at end, full green morocco by Riviere & Son, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, spine and upper edges of boards somewhat discoloured, occasional spotting

Literature

Ashley Library V pp.73-74; Granniss 54; Hayward 228; Wise, A Shelley Library pp.55-56

Catalogue Note

Writing to his publisher in the September of 1819, Shelley remarked of Prometheus Unbound, "it is in my judgement, of a higher character than anything I have yet attempted; and is perhaps less an imitation of any thing that has gone before it."