SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND, 1820 (1 VOL.)

8vo, FIRST EDITION, second issue (with "Miscellaneous" spelt correctly on contents leaf A3 and this leaf a cancel), half-title, fly titles, 2pp. publisher's adverts at end, ORIGINAL BOARDS, rebacked preserving small section of original spine and label, boards rubbed at extremities and a little soiled, some spotting

John Whipple Frothingham, bookplate

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

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Shelley writes in the Preface that "This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla... The bright sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenched the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama."