A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> Kelmscott Press edition of The Poetical Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=percy+bysshe+shelley&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).</li><li>Hammersmith:&nbsp;Kelmscott Press,&nbsp;1894–95.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Part of an edition of 250 copies.&nbsp;</li><li>Printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut title, borders, and initials.</li><li>Original full limp vellum, spines stamped in gold, issued without silk ties, housed in custom cloth chemises and blue morocco backed slipcases.</li></ul> 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 SherringtonDudley D. SicherSamuel J. Bloomingdale [1873-1968; son of Lyman]Felix M. WarburgHerbert J. MartinJonah GoldsteinJ. Edwin GoldmanLeo SulzbergerRalph SamuelHenry F. SamstagLouis J. RosenbachWilliam GoldmanL.A. AnsbacherH.A. Guinzburg [d. 1928]Fred M. SteinS.M. GoldbergManny StraussAlbert J. LehmannJos. GutmanSolomon Lowenstein [1877-1942]Z.D. BernsteinBernard RosenwaldEdwin S. LorschHerman LissnerCyrus L. Sulzberger [1858-1932]Maunie GoodmanJ.W. FrankelJoseph WellenHerman Sanders.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

A very nice copy of the magnificent Kelmscott edition of the poems of Shelley with interesting New York provenance.<ul><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).</li><li>One of 250 copies.</li><li>Printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut title, borders and initials.</li><li>Hammersmith:&nbsp;Kelmscott Press,&nbsp;1894-95.</li><li>3 vols. 8vo.</li><li>Original full limp vellum, spines stamped in gold, issued without silk ties.</li><li>Long list of signatures inked to first two blanks of volume one.</li><li>Housed in custom cloth chemises and blue morocco backed slipcases.</li></ul>

Kelmscott Edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The Masque of Anarchy by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Percy%20Bysshe%20Shelley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>.<ul><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley&nbsp;(English).</li><li>The Masque of Anarchy. Now First Published, with a Preface by Leigh Hunt.</li><li>London: Edward Moxon, 1832.</li><li>12mo.</li><li>With the half-title and 2 page publisher's ad, complete.</li><li>Bound full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers triple ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, by Zaehnsdorf, and with their exhibition gilt stamp on the rear pastedown, housed in a quarter red morocco backed clamshell slipcase, gilt lettered spine.</li></ul> Engraved bookplate of "Edward Huth Wykehurst Park" (descendant of the great bibliophile Henry Huth). He was the last Huth to live at Wykehurst Park. Written to denounce the state of things that occasioned the notorious 'Peterloo Massacre' at Manchester in 1819 for publication in The Examiner, but turned down by the editor, Leigh Hunt, "...because [he] thought that the public at large had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse."

The Masque of Anarchy First Edition

Scarce and magnificent deluxe edition of this beautifully illustrated edition of Shelley's poem.<ul><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Charles Robinson (English).</li><li>Introduction by Edmund Gosse (English).</li><li>London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann &amp; J.P. Lippincott Co, 1911.</li><li>Bound in ornately decorated vellum binding and with original dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Sensitive Plant

First edition finely bound copy of Shelley's Hellas: A Lyrical Drama.<ul><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).</li><li>London: Charles and James Ollier, 1822.</li><li>Bound by Bedford in full tan calf, skillfully re-backed retaining the original gilt lettered brown morocco spine label with all edges gilt.</li></ul>

Hellas: A Lyrical Drama

Inscribed centenary Edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8.</li><li>Percy Bysshe Shelley (English).</li><li>The Complete Poetical Works...the text newly collated and revised and edited with a memoir and notes by George Edward Woodberry.</li><li>Cambridge:&nbsp;Printed at the Riverside Press,&nbsp;1892.</li><li>8vo.</li><li>Large Paper Edition, limited to 250 numbered copies.</li><li>Bound in modern half brown morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt with burgundy and green calf title labels.</li><li>Inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13, 1901."</li></ul>

Shelley's Complete Works

Elaborately ornamented edition of Shelley's 1820 poem, lavishly illustrated and in the scarcest of the edition's bindings.<ul><li>Percy Bysse Shelley (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Charles Robinson (English).</li><li>Introduction by Edmund Gosse (English).</li><li>London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann &amp; J.P. Lippincott Co, [1911].</li><li>Bound in full maroon morocco with a gilt-stamped garden vignette.</li></ul>

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