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19106404London: Robt. Riviere & Son 1910. A fine example. Square sixteenmo 5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm. 46 2 blank pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt surrounding an ornate floral design stamped in gilt each with twelve inlaid red morocco flowers spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins cream paper liners and end-leaves top edge gilt. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper and a small gold bookplate. <br /> <br /> Shelley's poem The Sensitive Plant is a beautiful and tragic poem commemorating the brevity of life and immortality of cyclical nature. Written after death of his son while Percy and Mary Shelley struggled with their grief in Pisa the poem consists of four stanzas with three sections charting the change of seasons. It is set in a garden bursting with blooms but highlights the sensitive plant-a mimosa-with its humble leafy foliage. Human will is nothing in the face of the impartial power of nature and time. First published in Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems 1820 here it has been reproduced with a delicate binding to match its subject. <br /> <br /> "For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower;<br /> Radiance and odour are not its dower;<br /> It loves even like Love its deep heart is full<br /> It desires what it has not the Beautiful!"<br /> <br /> "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Robt. Riviere & Son unknown
19023497London: Hacon and Ricketts The Vale Press 1902. First editions thus. First editions thus. Tall 8vo. Two separate titles five total volumes two Keats three Shelley. A superb set of both Vale Press titles sold here together since bound similar and obviously stored safely together by the same owner as all five volumes in fine condition. Bound in publisher’s original beige smooth buckram cloth. Borders initials and decorations including a full-page decorative title in each volume of the Shelley and double-page title spread in the Keats by Charles Ricketts. Spine as near to original hue as ever seen. Browning to prelims in the Keats but no browning in the three Shelley volumes amazingly. Shelley all three volumes unopened. The finest set we have seen in some time. Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press unknown
1826322393London: William Benbow 1826. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. Bound in Twentieth Century brown levant elaborately gilt with flower devices on the spine and front cover stamped by Riviere & Sons uncut fine. With the bookplate of Louis Ledoux. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. But for 1824's Posthumous Poems this is the first selected poems of Shelley. This version reprints the poems from the earlier volume omitting the longer poems and translations but adding "Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples" with the fifth line of the first stanza with the correct reading "earth" for "air" which did not appear in the authorized editions until 1870. In Watt's "Poetical Album" 1829 this line is entirely omitted. Only four copies of this edition have sold at auction in the last 35 years. It was through this work that Browning first became acquainted with his first poetic hero. Grannis 87 William Benbow unknown
1839191840London: Edward Moxon 1839. Giving the productions of a sublime genius to the world First collected edition uniformly bound by Root & Sons. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established him finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. The appearance of pirated editions of Shelley's works persuaded his father Sir Timothy that hope of obscurity had vanished and Mary was permitted to prepare a proper edition provided she kept biographical detail to a minimum. "Mary Shelley brought Shelley into the mainstream of the national culture. He was no longer the author of a notorious banned poem Queen Mab only obtainable from shops specializing in blasphemy sedition and advice on birth control. He was the prophet of Prometheus Unbound one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by literature and of other works such as the "Ode to the West Wind". The notes that Mary added are masterpieces of editing adding so immeasurably to the reader's understanding that nobody would now consider printing Shelley's poems without them" St Clair p. 492. 4 vols octavo 165 x 104 mm. Bound with half-titles. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I as issued. Near-contemporary polished calf by Root & Sons for Charles E. Lauriat Boston twin spine labels compartments decorated in gilt covers with triple gilt rule borders and fleur-de-lis cornerpieces gilt roll to turn-ins marbled endpapers top edges gilt orange silk bookmarkers. Christmas gift inscription to Anne Lockwood Putnam Jr 1926-2015 from her grandmother Elizabeth Lowell Putnam 1862-1935 dated 1927 on first blanks. Spines uniformly browned shallow wear to vol. IV spine head couple of partial splits to inner hinges light foxing to outer leaves splash mark to edges. A very good set. Dunbar Shelley Studies 345; Granniss 88; Wise p. 87. William St Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family 1989. unknown
1818163729London: for C. and J. Ollier 1818. Fear not the future weep not for the past First edition revised issue with new title and cancels and the 1818 date as usual. This is a very nice copy of Shelley's poem dedicated to Mary Shelley with the errata leaf at the rear. In 1817 the publishers C. and J. Ollier agreed to publish Shelley's long poem Laon and Cythna. Shelley's new father-in-law William Godwin recommended a master printer for the job Buchanan Millan who made minor alterations to the text without consulting the poet. Shelley wrote to the Olliers complaining about these liberties whereupon the Olliers read the work for the first time and realised what they had agreed to publish. In the original version the titular lovers were brother and sister. London was alive with gossip about Shelley living with both Mary Godwin and her half-sister Claire Clairmont and in contemporary usage such a ménage was termed incest St Clair p. 432. Shelley therefore made alterations removing any hint of incest and gave the book a new title The Revolt of Islam by which it is still known. The book is made up from original sheets of Laon and Cythna with 26 cancelled leaves and a new title leaf. A few copies were issued with the title misdated 1817; this is the second issue as usual with the correct date. Octavo 223 x 144 mm. Early 20th-century red crushed morocco spine with five raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt turn-ins richly gilt blue endpapers top edge gilt others trimmed. Binding a little rubbed a couple of corners lightly worn short closed tear to title page skilfully repaired a few small marginal stains to contents otherwise clean internally. A very good copy. Ashley V pp. 67-8; Forman Shelley 50; Granniss 44; Tinker 1895. William St Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family 1991. hardcover
183537723New York: Wallis and Newell Publishers 1835. First American Edition. Original purple cloth with gilt title at spine octavo. Novel of a mother and daughter who navigate difficulties after their father and husband Lord Lodore is killed in a duel. Nearly Very Good contemporary previously owner signature at front endpaper stain to first half of pages at lower inside corner fading to cloth Wallis and Newell Publishers hardcover
1821244926London: C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street 1821. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. Printed by C.H. Reynall. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full blue morocco spine gilt t.e.g. others uncut by the Rose Bindery Boston. Fine copy. Small booklabel. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. Printed by C.H. Reynall. 1 vols. 8vo. One of Shelley's most important works prompted by learning the lurid story of Beatrice Cenci and Guido's portrait of her. He began the play in May 1819 in Rome and finished it in September; he had stage production in mind from the start and he asked Thomas Love Peacock to arrange for it to appear at Covent Garden. As a play by an atheist however and dealing with incest it stood no chance with the censor. The Cenci was never performed in Shelley's lifetime. Ashley Library V p. 69; Wise: A Shelley Library p.51 C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street unknown
1892318687Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1892. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901. 8 vols. 8vo. Bound in modern half brown morocco over marbled boards spines gilt with burgundy and green calf title labels some foxing to endpapers uncut and largely unopened else fine. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901." 8 vols. 8vo. Printed at the Riverside Press unknown
1880310723London: Reeves and Turner 1880. hardcover. near fine. Edited by Buxton Forman. 4 volumes tall thick 8vo gilt doublures full red French levant red silk end papers top edges gilt bound by Zaehnsdorf One hinge slightly dry. Portrait and facsimilies. London: Reeves and Turner 1880. Near Fine.<br/> <br/> Previous owner's name on fly-leaf.<br/> <br/> Reeves and Turner unknown
200161684Yale University Press. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0300090560 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened --576 pp. With 439 ills. 232 col. . 31 x 26 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Yale University Press hardcover
200877175Yale University Press. New. 2008. Hardcover. 0300135947 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 568 pp. With 486 ills. 328 col. . 31 x 26 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Yale University Press hardcover
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34885New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TWO VOLUME SET - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - DESCRIPTION OF Part I : This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. The second volume will be published in 1996. The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval Renaissance and later historic objects in a wide variety of media encompassing metalwork stained glass enamels ceramics and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse a Mosan lion aquamanile thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire' and the centerpiece of the collection the Suger chalice an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object together with an artist biography up-to-date bibliography and a technical analysis. -- DESCRIPTION OF Part Ii : Decorative Arts Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets Collections of the National Gallery of Art. Systematic Catalogue : This volume explores a group of the Gallery's decorative arts mainly drawn from the renowned collections of the Widener and Steele families. The focus of the catalogue is on the collection of Chinese ceramics which ranges from earthenware and stoneware to polychrome procelain with a concentration on pieces from the Qing dynasty 1644-1722. The carpets from Lynnewood Hall P. A. B. Widener's home in Pennsylvania are also catalogued and published here for the first time. -- with a bonus offer-- . hardcover
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