Percy Bysshe Shelley

A finely bound Kelmscott Press edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

• Sold as a set of 3 volumes.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).
• Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894–95.
• Octavo.
• Part of an edition of 250 copies. 
• Printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut title, borders, and initials.
• Original full limp vellum, spines stamped in gold, issued without silk ties, housed in custom cloth chemises and blue morocco backed slipcases.

The magnificent Kelmscott edition of the poems of Shelley, with an interesting New York provenance, likely from the 1920s. Includes signatures on the two preliminary blank leaves of a number of New York businessmen and philanthropists, many with connections to Temple Emanu-El, among them:

Sam Sherrington

Dudley D. Sicher

Samuel J. Bloomingdale [1873-1968; son of Lyman]

Felix M. Warburg

Herbert J. Martin

Jonah Goldstein

J. Edwin Goldman

Leo Sulzberger

Ralph Samuel

Henry F. Samstag

Louis J. Rosenbach

William Goldman

L.A. Ansbacher

H.A. Guinzburg [d. 1928]

Fred M. Stein

S.M. Goldberg

Manny Strauss

Albert J. Lehmann

Jos. Gutman

Solomon Lowenstein [1877-1942]

Z.D. Bernstein

Bernard Rosenwald

Edwin S. Lorsch

Herman Lissner

Cyrus L. Sulzberger [1858-1932]

Maunie Goodman

J.W. Frankel

Joseph Wellen

Herman Sanders.

From the estate of Arthur Lehmann.