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1892ST18713London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Reeves & Turner 1892. Third Edition with the Notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 188 x 122 mm. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4". Two volumes. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. <br/> PARTICULARLY FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND ONLAID BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE stamp-signed on front turn-in covers framed by multiple plain and decorative rolls cornerpieces with the gilt torch of liberty extending obliquely from an onlaid green morocco heart bracketed by volutes front boards with central onlaid citron morocco medallion stamped with the poet's gilt monogram rear boards with onlaid citron morocco pansy surrounded by a gilt collar with the quote "Pansies let my flowers be" from "Remembrance"; raised bands spine compartments with onlaid green morocco quatrefoil at center volutes at corners volume I with FRONT DOUBLURE OF BROWN MOROCCO semé with rows of alternating quatrefoils and dots at center A MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF SHELLEY UNDER GLASS framed by a laurel wreath inlaid with four red morocco cinquefoils navy blue moiré silk endleaves all edges gilt and delicately gauffered. Housed together in a fleece-lined red cloth drop-back box. Frontispiece in each volume vignette title pages. Front flyleaves with engraved bookplates of Edward Laurence Doheny and Carrie Estelle Doheny. A FLAWLESS AND SPARKLING SET.<br/> <br/> This is the outstanding Doheny copy in lovely bindings of a body of literature graced with a lyricism Day asserts is "unmatched elsewhere in English verse in its ethereal ideal beauty." While the notes of Shelley's wife appended here have aroused considerable denigration she is accused among other things of making her husband's verse less political than it actually was her editorial work is nevertheless professional and has remained an essential source for the study of Shelley's work. As Betty T. Bennett explains "biographers and critics agree that Mary Shelley's commitment to bring her husband the notice she believed his works merited was the single major force that established Shelley's reputation during a period when he almost certainly would have faded from public view." Thanks to her efforts Shelley 1792-1822 is one of the best-known English poets and an icon of the Romantic movement. According to DNB our editor Henry Harry Buxton Forman 1842–1917 "channelled a general enthusiasm into a minute study of textual details for which his careful and exacting temperament was ideally suited. His patient application produced impressive editions of Shelley" who was along with Keats Forman's main literary interest. After studying under and then working for Douglas Cockerell Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe founded their own bindery in 1901 and continued in a successful partnership until 1912 when Francis tragically drowned. Despite this loss the firm grew and prospered employing a staff of 80 by the mid-1920s and becoming perhaps the most successful English bindery of the 20th century. The "Cosway" binding with painted miniatures inlaid in handsome morocco apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909 the year G. C. Williamson's book entitled "Richard Cosway" was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway"--referring to the British miniature painter Richard Cosway 1742-1821--was then used to describe any book so treated whoever its author. This set was bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for book dealer J. W. Robinson of Los Angeles who supplied many books for the superb collection of Estelle Doheny 1875-1958 one of the most distinguished women book collectors of the 20th century whose magnificent library was especially rich in fine bindings. Volumes from her collection are sought after for their especially fine condition. [Printed at the Ballantyne Press for] Reeves & Turner unknown
1829ST17129-039London: Printed for John Brooks 1829. 229 x 152 mm. 9 x 6". xxxii 1 leaf section title 270 2 pp. without the initial blank. <br/> LUXURIOUS OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO VIGOROUSLY AND SPLENDIDLY GILT BY ZAEHNSDORF stamp-signed on front doublure and with the firm's oval exhibition stamp on rear endleaf covers framed by multiple plain and decorative rules and garlands of palm and olive branches large central panel densely tooled with 13 horizontal rows of either four or five elegant floral sprigs of various shapes some within flower-framed ovals others on a stippled background; flat spine gilt in similar fashion gilt titling TAN MOROCCO DOUBLURES with intricate central gilt arabesque on a field semé with gilt dots and daggers tan morocco endleaves with gilt border top edge gilt and beautifully gauffered to match the floral design on the covers. From the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck though apparently with his bookplate removed. Granniss 45. Spine sunned toward brown a ubiquitous problem with green morocco very slight rubbing to joints top inch of rear joint a little more significantly so front flyleaf with small closed tear at fore edge title page with small mended half-inch tear in the same place but a very desirable copy nonetheless the text clean and pleasing and the riotously embellished binding almost flaming with gold.<br/> <br/> With distinguished provenance this is a glittering exhibition binding that makes a memorable display with its fine and dense pointillé ground its exquisitely gauffered top edge and its especially refined floral and leafy ornamentation being particularly notable. A spiritual odyssey of lovers divided and seeking reunion "The Revolt of Islam" is Shelley's longest work despite its title the poem has little if anything to do with Islam though religion is generally addressed. The work was issued late in 1817 as "Laon and Cythna" but certain passages of that piece disturbed the publisher who demanded that they be changed or removed. Shelley reluctantly agreed and his alterations included the substitution of the present title. We have the Brooks edition with a new title page using the text of the first edition second issue with the fly title correctly bound as d1 and the preface ending on p. xxi. As Granniss indicates "the original quires and cancel leaves of the work fell into the hands of John Brooks who issued them in 1829 with a new title." Our volume comes from the illustrious collection of Cincinnati businessman arborist and philanthropist Cornelius J. Hauck 1893-1967 whose fortune was made in the family brewery; the auction of his library at Christie's in 2006 totaled more than $12.4 million this item was lot #593 selling for $3360. Printed for John Brooks unknown
1836041575New York: The New York Mirror Co 1836 1837 1836. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Full Page Plates. 52 Issues Complete In Publisher's Binding Marbled Boards With Leather Spine Gilt. Full Page Plates And Musical Melodies In Some Issueswear Paper And Leather Worn At Edges Of Boards But Binding Solid Contents Clean Except For Light Foxing At Edges Of The Full Page Plates. P. 119/120 Has Upper Corner Torn Away Removing About 1/2 Of Text. Long Closed Tear Pp 303/304. Pp 215/216 Excised.Includes The First Appearance In America Of An Up-And-Coming Young British Writer Charles Dickens Writing As " Boz" Or As "Excerpts From Dickens": "The Fashionable Dancing Academy" P. 122; "Miss Evans And The Eagle" P. 134; "The Bloomsbury Christening" Pp. 146-47; "The Steam Excursion" Pp. 162-63; "Meditations In Monmouth Street" Pp. 177-178; "The Great Winglebury Duel" Pp. 186-87; "A Christmas Dinner" Pp. 202-203; "Excerpt From 'Pickwick;" P. 294; "Minns And His Cousin" Pp. 305-306; "Our Next Door Neighbors" Pp. 314-315; "The Parlour Orator" Pp. 322-323. P. 328 Has Short Review Of Mary Shelley's "Falkner" "By The Author Of Frankenstein. This Work Exhibits A Greater Range Of Her Powers Than The Book By Which Mrs. Shelley Is Best Known But It Must Not Be Denied That It Lacks All That Strange And Terrible Interest Which Give Its Particular Character To Frankenstein. <br/> <br/> The New York Mirror Co 1836 1837 hardcover
188577416London: John Slark 1885. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. No. 73 of 200 numbered copies of this edition. Half red leather over marbled boards. An attractive and meaty set. Introduction by William Rossetti. Size: Octavo . 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 77416. . John Slark hardcover
1880230111London: Printed for Private Distribution 1880. No. 10 of 50 copies for American of an issue of 100. Frontispiece portrait illustrations of coats-of-arms folding genealogical chart. 19 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarter green morocco marbled boards original wrappers bound in. Extremities rubbed else Fine. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. No. 10 of 50 copies for American of an issue of 100. Frontispiece portrait illustrations of coats-of-arms folding genealogical chart. 19 pp. 1 vols. 4to. <br/><br/> Printed for Private Distribution hardcover
1897333380New York: Bangs & Co 1897. First edition. Frontispiece portrait 236 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In contemporary library buckram about fine; bookplate of Louis Ledoux. First edition. Frontispiece portrait 236 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Mr. Frederickson about 20 years ago conceived the idea of having the larger portion of his buying concentrated on Shelley. We say.that this Shelley library is the most remarkable ever collected in this country" Preface signed by Ernest Dressel North. <br /> <br /> Among the great rarities is Mary Shelley's copy inscribed from Shelley of "A Philosophical Poem"1813 with her notes and two manuscript verses describing her love for Shelley. There are also several autograph Byron letters Coleridge autograph letter and poem 24 pages of the original manuscript of Irving's "Life of Washington" two Keats letters each 2 pages several Lamb letters a Poe letter discussing "The Mystery of Marie Roget" about 65 Shelley letters and several Mary Shelley letters. An amazing collection. Bangs & Co unknown
1840324477London: Edward Moxon 1840. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Recent half morocco and cloth. Formerly in the Exeter City Library with stamps. With a number of early neat pencil annotations in an unidentified hand 1:164 1:167; 1:234-239 three pages with lines shaved at the bindery. Very good. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contains the first printing of Shelley's "The Defence of Poetry" and also his translations from the classics including Plato's "Symposium" "Ion" and fragments from "The Republic" and 67 letters. "The Defence of Poetry" was edited by John Hunt for inclusion in "The Liberal" but the magazine folded before it could be published. This first appearance used John Hunt's edited version. <br /> <br /> Inscribed in each volume "Julia Robinson from her affectionate friend Mary Shelley Putney 22 Dec. 1839". This inscription documents Mary Shelley's close connection with the Robinson family who figure for many years in her journals as well as in the Journals of William Godwin her father. From February 1827 Mary became close to Julia and Isabel or Isabella Robinson daughters of Joshua Robinson an Oxford graduate and a successful builder with a large family and a large residence Park Cottage in Paddington. After Isabella bore an illegitimate child she and Mary Shelley shared lodgings in the south of England in the summer of 1827. The inscription also points to a long-secret chapter in Mary's life documented by Betty T. Bennett in Mary Diana Dods A Gentleman and a Scholar 1991. Mary Shelley's friend Mary Diana Dods was the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish earl and wrote numerous works for Blackwood's Magazine under the name David Lyndsay including a story collection Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful 1825. Beginning in 1827 Mary Dods assumed the name and persona of Mr. Walter Sholto Douglas and with Isabella Robinson determined to live on the Continent where it was cheaper and where the legitimacy of Isabella's child would not be questioned. Mary Shelley secured the passports for the couple to travel to France as Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sholto Douglas. In April 1828 Mary Shelley travelled to Paris with Mr. Robinson and Julia "who has become Mary Shelley's new young companion" Bennett 38 to visit the Douglases. During much of that stay Mary was ill with smallpox and "her great regret is that she endangered Julia Robinson" Bennett 136. Mr. Sholto Douglas was later imprisoned for debt and died in France. Isabella was estranged from Mary Shelley when she returned to England in 1830 but Mary and her son lived with Julia Robinson for part of 1833 and clearly preserved friendly ties thereafter. <br /> An important book with an evocative association. Forman 77; Graniss 82. For Isabella Robinson and David Lyndsay see Betty T. Bennett. Mary Diana Dods A Gentleman and a Scholar 1991 Edward Moxon unknown
188828674London: Printed for Private Circulation Only 1888 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum as noted in one OCLC record. Fine copy. Small 4to original printed tan paper boards untrimmed. An essay on Shelley's faith which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds dogmas and theologies whatsoever so was Shelley's Faith above those articles and doctrines which many accept in place of Religion. Shelley's Faith was in the Eternal Goodness in the Eternal Truth and in Eternal Love." W. Kineton Parkes 1865-1938 was a novelist art historian and librarian who had some involvement with the Pre-Raphaelites and compiled an interesting anthology entitled Painter Poets. His Shelley's Faith was probably first read as a paper possibly before the Shelley Society though that is not so stated. This publication has the earmarks of the involvement of T. J. Wise but the stated limitation may not be as fallacious as in some of Wise's publications; it is indeed scarce. Bookplate on the front paste-down of Louis V. Ledoux. London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888 unknown
1888260925London: Printed for private circulation for the Shelley Society 1888. One of three copies on vellum signed by the printers Richard Clay & Sons. ii 17 9 pp. 8vo 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. Polished tan calf gilt spine front hinge started but holding by Tout. Bookplate of Edwin B. Holden. One of three copies on vellum signed by the printers Richard Clay & Sons. ii 17 9 pp. 8vo 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. Printed for private circulation [for the Shelley Society] unknown
1821267479London: J. Porter 1821. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Volumes 94-96 Complete three volume set for 1821. Octavos. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards. Overall scuffing to the spine and boards chipping to the spine backs else a good sound set. Contains reviews of Shelley's "The Cenci A Tragedy" and "Prometheus Unbound" William Edward Parry's two "Journals" of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage and a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions the "Principles of Political Economy" by Malthus "The History of British India" by James Mill and much more. J. Porter hardcover
188021450London: Printed for Private Distribution 1880. Number 10 of the 50 printed for American distribution from an private issue edition of 100 copies. Engraved frontispiece marked "Proof" title vignette folding pedigree illustrations in text. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary half green morocco original wrappers bound in. Some rubbing original wrappers and adjacent leaves spotted and browned else a good copy from the library of Henry Cabot Lodge. Number 10 of the 50 printed for American distribution from an private issue edition of 100 copies. Engraved frontispiece marked "Proof" title vignette folding pedigree illustrations in text. 1 vols. 4to. Printed for Private Distribution unknown
1830314911London: Saunders and Otley 1830. Second edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Near contemporary half-calf and marbled boards. Covers detached spines perished. Second edition. 3 vols. 8vo. From the library of Sir Percy Florence Shelley 1819-1889 the only surviving child of Percy and Mary Shelley. Sir Percy who inherited the family baronetcy in 1844 on the death of his grandfather also inherited his father's papers on the death of Mary Shelley; he and his wife Jane Lady Shelley created at Boscombe Manor something of a shrine to the poet's memory and had much to do with shaping the Victorian cult and myth of Shelley. Margaret Shelley 1801-1887 who owned this copy prior to her nephew was one of the poet's four younger sisters. The book combines two novels by Griffin issued together for this second edition the year after their first appearance. Provenance: Margaret Shelley ownership signature to titles dated 1839; Percy Florence Shelley bookplate in each volume Saunders and Otley unknown
183577975Paris:: A. and W. Galignani and Co. 1835. old quarter calf and marbled sides. Old institutional stamp on flyleaf and paper label at base of spine; neat donation inscription on title page; slight use to the binding; contents fine. 12mo. A. and W. Galignani and Co., unknown
18866240London: Reeves & Turner 1886. Second edition. Fine. Two octavo volumes 7 1/4 x 4 11/16 inches; 184 x 119 mm. 572; 580 pp. A spectacular ca. 1920 Cosway-Style binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the J.L. Hudson Company stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in. Full red crushed levant morocco over beveled boards covers lavishly gilt in the Art Nouveau style with inlaid green and light brown morocco inlays. The first volume with a central green morocco medallion with Percy Bysshe Shelley's initials in gilt. The second volume with a central green morocco medallion with the phrase "Pansies/Let My Flowers Be" stamped in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments four of which have onlaid green morocco flowers. Double gilt-ruled board edges and elaborate gilt turn-ins dark blue watered silk liners and endleaves all edges gilt and gauffered. The first volume with a front doublure of dark blue crushed levant morocco multi-ruled in gilt. In the center is a superb gilt framed hand-painted portrait miniature 3 x 2 3/8 inches; 76 x 60 mm. of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The miniature is surrounded by a rectangular recessed frame with eight onlaid red morocco flowers and twenty-four onlaid beige morocco leaves. The front and back joints of both volumes have been expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Housed in a custom-made felt lined half red morocco with a red felt divider clamshell case two spines paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments. <br /> <br /> A wonderful early Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-style binding. The miniature is of exceptional quality and is quite possibly the work of Miss C.B. Currie. The J. L. Hudson Company commonly known simply as Hudson's was a retail department store chain based in Detroit Michigan. Hudson's flagship store on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit was constructed beginning in 1911 with additions throughout the years before being 'completed' in 1946. The building was named after the company's founder Joseph Lowthian Hudson and was demolished on October 24 1998. In 1961 it was the tallest department store in the world and at one time claimed to be the second-largest department store after Macy's in the United States by square footage. The Grand River Avenue Book Shop was on the Mezzanine floor.<br /> <br /> The story of the Sangorski & Sutcliffe Bindery reads like something out of a novel-when two of Douglas Cockrell's talented apprentices Frances Sangorski and George Sutcliffe were laid off during an economic downturn they began working out of an attic. Eventually their bindery would be famous for its intricate multicolored leather inlays and elaborate gold and jeweled bindings. Although named after the English miniaturist Richard Cosway 1742-1821 the desirable "Cosway Binding" with its jewel-like portrait miniature set into a fine binding was first developed at the turn of the century by J.H. Stonehouse director of London's Henry Sotheran Booksellers. Their miniatures were painstakingly crafted by the talented painter Miss C. B. Currie 1849-1940. As the style grew in popularity other publishing houses quickly began to reproduce this technique-each developing their own desirable take on the aesthetic-referred to as "Cosway style.". Fine. Reeves & Turner unknown
181965557London:: Printed for C. and J. Ollier 1819 i.e. 1876. Facsimile edition. original blue boards with hand-lettered paper label on spine. Bookplates; endsheets and boards tanned; light use at extremities. 8vo. Edited with notes by H. Buxton Forman and printed for private distribution. Printed for C. and J. Ollier, hardcover
1830880P38London: Alfred Miller 1830. Paperback. Good Only. 6" by 4". Robert Cruikshank. The first illustrated edition of this anonymously penned poem thought to be written by a young Mary Shelley. The scarce first illustrated edition.Illustrated with an engraved title and six plates by Robert Cruikshank. Four pages of adverts to the rear.Collated complete.'Monsieur Nongtongpaw' is thought to be a juvenile poem by Mary Shelley written when she was a child. It was first publishing by her father William Godwin's publishing firm in 1807. Some modern scholars believe it to have been penned by John Taylor.A charming poem based on Charles Dibdin's 1796 song of the same name mocking English and French stereotypes. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally worn front wrap is held by two cords only rear wrap is working loose. Lacking most of the back strip. Wraps are a little discoloured with some light marks. Edge wear to the wraps with a few small chips. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spots and handling marks. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page. Good Only Alfred Miller paperback
182832206London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. / R. Jennings 1828. Very Good. London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and R. Jennings 2 Poultry 1828. First Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's magenta moire silk gilt-lettered spine all edges gilt binder's ticket of F. Westley to rear pastedown; vii1360pp.; engraved presentation plate with initials "S.W." frontispiece and added title page sixteen 16 leaves of plates throughout collated complete. Some scuffing at corners and spine ends with brief exposure front hinge just starting else a Very Good internally clean and sound copy housed in modern linen clamshell box. Rather pretty orange contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of George Gregory "Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra."<br /> <br /> Magnificent example of this scarce keepsake volume with contributions by Sir Walter Scott Wordsworth Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley listed here simply as "the author of Frankenstein." The short story appears on p. 80 under the title "The Sisters of Albano" adorned with an accompanying engraving. As with her masterpiece "Frankenstein" Shelley returns to the nesting story within a story which opens with a pleasure party on the banks of Lake Albano observing a young couple a young worker with a rifle and his female companion. Thus sets off this tragic examination of "the mingling of love with crime" the story of sisters Maria and Anina the elder a devout nun the younger an adolescent who commits a crime for love that lands her before the executioner. In an act of desperation the sisters exchange garbs when Maria comes to visit Anina in order to save her but tragedy comes for all the characters in the end.<br /> <br /> Lyles D1c. Published for the Proprietor by Hurst, Chance, and Co. / R. Jennings unknown
181320<p>In-8. 2 leaves. title dedication to Harriet 240 pp. Copy with full margins.</p><p>Original publisher's cardboard brown paper small rubbing on the spine and hinges.</p><p>Contemporary bottle green silk undershirt with silk ribbon. Case spine titled in long-grain red morocco.</p><p><strong>Extremely scarce original and private edition with an estimated print run of 250 copies.</strong></p><p><strong>Complete copy with the dedication page and printing notices.</strong></p><p>In the copies that he distributed around him Shelley deleted the page dedicating to Harriet name of a young cousin for whom he felt a romantic feeling but also of his first wife married in 1811 from whom he had separated and who committed suicide in 1816. He also cut out from these copies the printing instructions bearing his name on the title page and on the last leaf. In 1816 he revised and reprinted some extracts from his poem under the title <em>The Daemon of the World</em>.</p><p>The few remaining complete copies of the 1813 edition were recovered by the London bookseller William Clark who ensured its distribution despite prosecution by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. In 1821 another publisher Richard Carlile produced a pirate edition in London which Shelley tried in vain to ban.</p><p>Composed between June 1812 and February 1813 the poem <em>Queen Mab</em> named after a well-known figure in Irish legends and popularized by Shakespeare reflects all the utopian passion of a young eighteen-year-old poet having faith in a world full of love and castigating religion and all tyrannical institutions.</p><p>Extremely rare first printing edition in strictly period cardboard of one of the very first works of the great English poet who died at the age of 31.</p> Printed by P. B. Shelley hardcover
1868997Y10Not Stated : Not Stated 1868-9. Paperback. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A curious very scarce private printing of Shelley's 'Declaration of Rights' supported with letters by Francis Freeling and Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue. Accompanying this copy of Shelley's manifesto are letters obtained through the sale of Sir Francis Freeling's effects communicated by Mr. Fortescue and intended to give illustrate the fear and vigilance of the government of the day. In the original blue wraps. Several leaves uncut. Undated dated from a copy held at the British Library. Declaration of Rights first printed in 1812 serves as Percy Bysshe Shelley's 31-point radical pamphlet advocating for political reform and promoting liberty and free expression. His 15-year-old Irish servant was arrested for distributing copies of the work after which Shelley and his companions fled and settled in Tremadog Wales. In the original blue wraps. Externally with handling marks to the wraps and mild edge wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with a few scattered spots heaviest to the endpapers. Very Good Not Stated paperback
1868997Y9Not Stated : Not Stated 1868-9. Paperback. Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A curious and very scarce private printing of Shelley's 'Declaration of Rights' supported with letters by Francis Freeling and Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue. Accompanying this copy of Shelley's manifesto are letters obtained through the sale of Sir Francis Freeling's effects communicated by Mr. Fortescue and intended to give illustrate the fear and vigilance of the government of the day. In the original blue wraps. Several leaves uncut. Undated dated from a copy held at the British Library. Declaration of Rights first printed in 1812 serves as Percy Bysshe Shelley's 31-point radical pamphlet advocating for political reform and promoting liberty and free expression. His 15-year-old Irish servant was arrested for distributing copies of the work after which Shelley and his companions fled and settled in Tremadog Wales. In the original blue wraps. Externally with spotting and marks to the wraps. Slight edge wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with spotting to the endpapers. Good Not Stated paperback
1843000902London: Thomas Rodd 1843. 16pp disbound from a volume at some point t.e.g. Slightly browned one or two spots of foxing but generally clean. Wise notes that "In 1843 when advertising the present pamphlet for sale Rodd asserted that it was a facsimile reprint of an alleged original edition of which the author was said to have printed twenty copies in 1816. No example of this mysterious original has ever been unearthed . My own opinion is that no original ever existed . The motto 'We pity the plumage but forget the dying bird' was taken by Shelley from Paine's 'Rights of Man' 1817 Pt.I p. 24 'He Burke pities the plumage but forgets the dying bird'. This clearly denies any impression of the address dated 1816". The pamphlet decries the difference between the public concern for the death of the Princess and their indifference to the plight of the poorest in society plus ca change and also examines the execution of the leaders of the Pentrich Rising. Wise 'A Shelley Library' page 46. First Edition. Disbound. Good. 8vo. [Thomas Rodd] Paperback
18181078London: Sold by J. Porter Successor to the late T. Becket in Pall Mall 1818. Near fine. THE MONTHLY REVIEW volume 85 containing an anonymous review that argues the newly published FRANKENSTEIN is unworthy of meaningful notice. When FRANKENSTEIN was first published anonymously it received little fanfare and mixed reviews. The negative reviews often attacked its unseemly premise and apparent moral ambiguity. This review on page 439 of the April 1818 issue of the journal remarks on the book's philosophical novelty but ultimately finds it too outlandish to take seriously. A terrific copy uncut in boards offering a glimpse of the contemporary reactions to the revolutionary novel by the then-anonymous author. Octavo. 8.75'' x 5.25''. Contemporary or nearly so paper boards. All edges uncut largely unopened. Index at rear. viii 544 8 pages. University of St. Andrews device and "85" stamped on spine "1818" written in later ink on spine. Sold by J. Porter, Successor to the late T. Becket, in Pall Mall unknown
187621970London: privately printed 1876. Privately printed limited edition 75 copies reproduction of the London: C & G Ollier 1821 first edition. Hardcover. Rubbing to joints spine darkened else very good. Vellum and boards octavo 6 x 9 inches 33 pp. Pages 27 - 33 contain "Studies for Epipsychidion and Cancelled Passages." Half-title title-page and "Advertisement" are letterpress reproductions of the original 1821 London edition. <br/><br/>Handsome letterpress reprint on Whatman's handmade paper of Shelley's late poem with added footnotes and the 7 pages of "Studies" gleaned from Mary Shelley's 1839 edition of the poet's works and from Richard Garnett's 1862 "Relics of Shelley." Prefatory note on verso of half-title signed H.B.F. Harry Buxton Forman. In his "The Shelley Library: An Essay in Bibliography" London 1886 Forman describes this edition at entry No. 64 as ". . . a private octavo reprint of Epipsychidion of which there are two varieties. Of these No. 64 has no distinctive title-page though executed the same year as No. 65 1876 but begins with the fly-title EPIPSYCHIDION/ 2s. with bibliographical note at the back; the original title-page is reproduced with the stanza from Dante at back . . . " The limitations for the "two varieties" are described together in entry No. 65: "The issue of No. 64 was 50 on plain paper 25 on Whatman's hand-made paper; and 1 on vellum." No. 65 added a new title page dated 1876 and named Forman as editor limitation was 10 on plain paper 5 on Whatman's 5 on vellum. OCLC/Worldcat lists only 2 copies of "No. 64" - 1 at Harvard University Houghton Library 1 at Yale University Library. privately printed hardcover
1849140949148London: Richard Bentley 1849. First Illustrated Edition. Near Fine. The fourth reissue of the first illustrated edition of Frankenstein with the long introduction by the Author. There were only three editions of Frankenstein authorized by the author: the first three-volume edition published anonymously in 1818 with a preface by Percy Bysshe Shelley; the second two-volume edition 1823 which included her name and was overseen and slightly edited by her father William Godwin; and this third edition in one volume with a preface by Shelley herself. This is the final Bentley edition which was first published in 1831 and reissued in 1832 1836 1839 and 1849. <p>Bound in publisher's brown cloth with decorative stamping in blind on boards and in gilt on spine printed advertisement endpapers. In one volume as issued with the English translation of another Gothic classic Schiller’s The Ghost-Seer. xii 202 2 163 1 pp. illustrated with engraved frontispiece by Theodor von Holst. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and minor bumping to corners. Light foxing to textblock edges and contents heavier at title and frontis. "Wrigglesworth's Library" written in old hand to first page of each novel "Mary Shelley" written in pencil to Frankenstein title page for the benefit of those living under a rock. Lyles B10a.<br /> <br /> <p>A crisp unrestored copy of the fourth reissue of Bentley's 1831 revised Frankenstein the basis for most of the future printings of the novel and the first to depict the Monster. Richard Bentley unknown
1835AQ26146Brussels: Ad. Wahlen Printer to the Court 1835. 396pp. With a half-title. Contemporary burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed cocked lower joint split chipping to head and foot of sunned spine. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of Glenbarr to FEP partially clipped contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of half-title. William St Clair's copy with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript notes to FEP: 'Contemporary pirate not recorded in Lyle. This must be an extremely rare volume: I have never heard tell of it. Resembles early English publisher's cloth but presumably the book has been rebound since the ownership inscription is clipped'. The first continental edition issued as a part of Brussels-based publisher A. Wahlen's Modern British Authors series of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1797-1851 fifth and penultimate novel; a romance that differs from her earlier work in its shift away from the supernatural or historical to a more contemporary setting to critique the limitations of the conventional Victorian class system. The novel's modern editor Lisa Vargo Lodore 1997 Introduction p.18-19 has noted the text's engagement with the education and social role of women suggesting that it dissects a patriarchal culture that pressured women into dependence on men. In the view of critic Betty T. Bennett Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction 1998: 'the novel proposes egalitarian educational paradigms for women and men which would bring social justice as well as the spiritual and intellectual means by which to meet the challenges life invariably brings'. The Literary Gazette No. 949 1835 heaped praise upon the novel dubbing Shelley 'one of the most original of our modern writers'. William St Clair 1937-2021 British scholar and senior civil servant notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys The Biography of a Family 1989 and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 2004. . 8vo. Ad. Wahlen, Printer to the Court hardcover
