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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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400 - 600 GBP
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Description
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824
- Paper
8vo, FIRST EDITION, thirteen fly-titles, with errata leaf, full calf by Bedford, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, occasional spotting, upper joint tender
Provenance
Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917), bookplate and ownership inscription; his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 16 March 1920, lot 653; John Whipple Frothingham, bookplate
Literature
Ashley Library V p.88; Granniss 78; Wise, A Shelley Library p.70
Catalogue Note
With a Preface by Mary Shelley, who selected the poems for this collection from her husband's disordered papers after his death. Includes the first appearance of 'Julian and Maddalo', inspired by conversations with Byron in Venice in 1818.