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1843400585London: "Reprinted for Thomas Rodd" 1843. First edition. Fine. 8vo. Gatherings stitched; red morocco slipcase. According to Wise: "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 had printed twenty copies in 1816. No example of this mysterious original has ever been unearthed; no trace of it beyond Rodd's own statement has ever been discovered; and no mention of any kind either of its printing or distribution is to be found in the correspondence of Shelley or any of his friends. My own opinion is that no original ever existed that the private impression of twenty copies was a myth and that Rodd's so-called facsimile reprint of 1843 is in fact the actual princeps of the Address" Ashley V p.64. Granniss Shelley pp.43-44; Wise Shelley p.46. <br/><br/> "Reprinted for Thomas Rodd" unknown books
187222Abe-168London John Van Voorst . 1872. Fine. Natural history London: John Van Voorst 1872. 8vo tan polished calf by Rivière rebacked with gilt-ornamented spine morocco label laid down. Inner dentelles gilt marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate. Very good. Descriptive account with information on habits and location of Egyptian birds. Fourteen handcolored platesafter drawings by J. G. Keulemans. The birds were examined in their Nile habitats by the author who made three tours and gives information on his own travels as well. Intended for hunters and collectors. Nissen 872. Anker 469. Polished Calf. Very Good. 8vo. London John Van Voorst . Hardcover books
1880251032N.p. 1880. Pp. ii half-title 3-16 lacking title-page interleaved. 1 vols. 8vo. Grey mottled cloth. Bookplate of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke on front pastedown. Pp. ii half-title 3-16 lacking title-page interleaved. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed "C.E. Thompson" on the first blank and extensively annotated throughout with allusions to Vergil and Milton citations in Greek and a transcription of part of Tennyson's In Memoriam. Provenance: Anderson Sale 1504. Purchases in London and Paris of the Late George D. Smith Part I 1920 lot 863; A Catalogue of Original Works By and of Books Relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley. By Brick Row Book Shop New York N.Y. $3.00 unknown books
18851316695London: Reeves and Turner 1885. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 101; G-/no-DJ; light brown spine with black text to paper label; reprint of 1816 first edition; cloth shows some age toning toward edges; cracked front joint. as is; minor chips to spine edges; minor rubbing to corners; text block has deckled edges; slight toning to exterior edges; slight offset to endpapers; some cracking to gutters; light pencil to ffep; interior clean;. 1316695. FP New Rockville Stock. Reeves and Turner hardcover books
189721267New York: Bangs & Co 1897. Frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco. Covers detached repaired with tape rubbed light marginal browning of text a few pencilled notations. Frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Collection of Shelley and Shelleyana. "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/>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 books
1821WRCLIT66924London: C. and J. Ollier 1821. 67-311pp. Octavo. Sewn self-wrappers untrimmed. Some dust tanning at extended edges a few soft creases and light spots of soiling but a very good copy. Full morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition published anonymously and one of Shelley's scarcest later publications. This copy has the title in the form with the colon after the main title. The lady addressed in the subtitle Emilia Viviani is generally regarded as the motivation for the poem's completion rather than its original inspiration as Grannis quotes Richard Garnett's observation that the poem was in its first draft before Shelley made her acquaintance. It was long asserted that the edition consisted of only one hundred copies but recent scholarship suggests a modestly larger edition perhaps on the order of three hundred copies. GRANNISS pp.65-7. WISE P.59. TINKER 1900. NCBEL III:315. C. and J. Ollier unknown books
1840615191840. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. ESSAYS LETTER FROM ABROAD TRANSLATIONS AND FRAGMENTS by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. In Two volumes. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1840. First American edition same year as British. 8vo. half brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards; spine in gilt t.e.g. Slight sun some scuffing rubbing to leather mainly to edges. Light foxing throughout. Very good tight copies overall. unknown books
1840410501840. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. ESSAYS LETTERS FROM ABROAD TRANSLATIONS AND FRAGMENTS. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. In two volumes. London: Edward Moxon 1840. First edition. 8vo. brown cloth; xxvii 319 pp. viii 360 pp. Book plates. Corners slightly bumped wear to heel and crown and small tears at spines on both vols.; mild soiling sunning and rubbing at boards. Hinges tender; one signature starting at vol. I; mild over-opening and soiling at endpapers on both vols. Text very clean. Good. unknown books
184056583Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. First US edn. 2 volumes. 8vo pp .243 248. Original cloth little wear to the top of the spine o/w a very nice copy. Includes a 15pp preface by the editor. Includes an essay on poetry philosophical specualtions etc. Author editor and soldier Thomas Wentworth Higgisonson's copy with his ownership signature and date in both volumes. Wikipedia: "Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1823 - 1911 was an American Unitarian minister author abolitionist and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers the first federally authorized black regiment from 1862-1864. Following the war Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves women and other disfranchised peoples." Howeverm he is probably best remembered as the editor who worked American poet Emily Dickinson. This work includes a 15pp preface by Mary Sheeley and her Journal of a Six Weeks Tour Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni. Also in volume two are a number of letters from Percy Shelley to Mary Shelley. The Percy Shelley material includes an essay on poetry philosophical speculations and the like. Lea and Blanchard unknown books
183115881JLondon: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831. Third Edition corrected and revised by Mary Shelley as well as being the First Illustrated Edition. Engraved frontispieces and illustrated title page by Theodor von Holst depicting Frankenstein and the creature. Late 19th-century brown three-quarter morocco with red leather label and gilt-stamped and tooled spine. Marble endpapers and matching all three marbled sides. Vintage 19th century bookplate of Anthony Salvin and Anne Andrews Neffield. A little foxing to the first few pages else a very good plus copy. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover books
186993832Boston:: Sever Francis & Co. Good. 1869. Hardcover. Third American edition. Small octavo bound in burgundy cloth with the title in gilt lettering on the spine dark brown endpapers. An ex-library copy with typical markings: moderate to heavy shelf wear and aging frayed with loss at the spine ends library book-plate on front paste-down small library stamp on title page library pocket and card on rear paste-down occasional foxing throughout text block else good. ; 177 pages . Sever, Francis, & Co., hardcover books
182254896London: Charles and James Ollier 1822. First edition 8vo pp. 7 viii-xi 1 60; ca. 1970s full red goatskin triple gilt rules on covers gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 3; the binding is signed on the turn-in "Ex Libris Brent Gration-Maxfield 1972." With the final leaf containing "Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon." A fine copy. Hellas was the last work Shelley published since three months later on 8 July 1822 he drowned in the Bay of Spezia. Ashley Library V pp. 84-85; Tinker 1902. <br/><br/> Charles and James Ollier unknown books
1835170915004New York: Wallis and Newell 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Following the three volume British edition. Two volumes in one. Bound with The Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat as issued. 228; 219pp. Period half calf and marbled boards morocco spine label lettered in gilt. About Very Good. Small stain in upper margin of first 60 pages or so of Lodore. Crease down middle of spine wear to edges. Some textual foxing and spotting heaviest at Naval Officer title page and facing last page of Lodore; wrinkling to pages of Naval Officer. Published as part of the Franklin Library series but fortunately unlike most surviving copies not an institutional copy. The rare first American appearance of a proto-feminist novel by Mary Shelley best-known as the author of Frankenstein also known as The Beautiful Widow. Wallis and Newell hardcover books
183030088London: Alfred Miller 1830. First Illustrated Edition. Robert Cruikshank. 12mo pp. 19 11 4. Illustrated with 6 engraved plates. Bound in original net-grain brown wrappers spine slightly sunned two short tears in the title-page fore-margin a very clean tight copy. Sometimes described as her first published work this was first issued at her father and step-mother's M. J. Godwin's press in 1808 as Mounseer Nongtongpaw: a new version. A satirical poem about an Englishman in France and the linguistic misunderstandings that ensued. Alfred Miller unknown books
183036306London: Alfred Miller 1830. First Illustrated Edition. Robert Cruikshank. 12mo pp. 19. Illustrated with 6 engraved plates with contemporary hand coloring. Bound in later 3/4 morocco and marble boards by Root and son front cover very loose a very clean copy. Sometimes described as her first published work this was first issued at her father and step-mother's M. J. Godwin's press in 1808 as Mounseer Nongtongpaw: a new version. A satirical poem about an Englishman in France and the linguistic misunderstandings that ensued. Alfred Miller unknown books
18801329929London: C. Kegan Paul 1880. Large Paper Edition #41/50. Hardcover. Octavo 393 pages; VG; bound by Maltby Oxford in full dark blue calf gilt titling and rules to spine light gilt to boards; gilt turn-ins; mild sun-fading and wear to spine; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> "This Large-Paper Edition consisting of Fifty Copies all of which are numbered was printed in the month of November 1880. This Copy is No. 41" / Signed by the printer Charles Whittingham Co.; Printed at the Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham and Co.;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> shelved case 0. 1329929. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. C. Kegan Paul hardcover books
1824140941633London: Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt 1824. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. xi iii 415 1 pp. bound with the errata leaf. Later green calf gilt smooth spine gilt brown decorative morocco lettering-pieces gilt all edges gilt blue marbled endpapers stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf for A. C. McClurg. Near Fine with slightly sunned spine some minor rubbing to extremities. From the collection of Louis V. Ledoux 1880-1948 poet and Japanese print collector with his bookplate. An attractive copy. One of only 500 copies. Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt unknown books
18862636London: Reeves and Turner 1886. Limited to three hundred copies. Octavo. lviii 60 pages with a seven page catalog at the back. Illustrated bookplate of "J.A. Fuller Maitland" on front pastedown together with a type-written analysis of who might have designed the Pre-Raphaelite bookplate. <br/><br/> Reeves and Turner unknown books
188710389London: Shelley Society 1887. original boards. Forman H. Buxton. 4to. original boards. xii 40 17 12 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Cover extremities chipped; soiled. Shelley Society unknown books
1822146161822. in original boards London: Printed and Published by R. Carlile 1822. Original drab paper-covered boards. First Published Edition second issue -- which is to say the sheets of William Clark's 1821 pirated edition with the 1822 cancel title leaf of radical publisher Richard Carlile. "Queen Mab a Philosophical Poem in Nine Cantos with Seventeen Notes" -- Shelley's first major poetic work -- was first privately-printed in 1813. Since it was a radical and revolutionary vision of a utopian world from an atheistic viewpoint Shelley never intended it to go beyond his friends. But in 1821 a stash of the undistributed sheets was discovered by London bookseller William Clark and the result was an 1821 pirated edition with the help of the infamous book pirate Thomas Moses whose monogram also appears here on the final page of text. Shelley tried to suppress this Clark/Moses edition but was unsuccessful because the courts ruled that "books liable to conviction for blasphemy or sedition are not entitled to legal protection." Clark spent four months in prison courtesy of the Society for the Prevention of Vice; Clark's sheets ultimately fell into the hands of his former employer Richard Carlile who issued this edition with his own title leaf in 1822 -- Shelley having just drowned off the coast of Italy in July 1822. This copy includes at the rear Shelley's dedicatory poem "To Harriet which had appeared in his 1813 copies but which Shelley had ever since tried to suppress -- and for good reason. In 1811 19-year-old Shelley had eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook under her threat that she would otherwise take her own life; in July 1814 -- after the 1813 QUEEN MAB was printed with its dedication -- Shelley fled pregnant Harriet for the Continent with Mary Godwin and after Harriet did in fact take her own life married Mary at the end of 1816. In 1818 Mary's FRANKENSTEIN was published. This copy is still remarkably in the original drab paper-covered boards albeit without spine label; the leaves are uncut and the original endpapers are intact. There is minor edge-wear and one small patch of the spine has chipped away but this is certainly near-fine condition. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with leather label. Incidentally in the legendary eight-day Jerome Kern sale of January 1929 the highest price achieved today just over $1 million was by a copy of QUEEN MAB annotated by Shelley -- thanks to Lee Biondi for this tidbit. unknown books
1821114154London: Clark 1821. First. hardcover. near fine. Later 1/2 brown morocco over marbled boards spine gilt with five raised bands g.t. London: W. Clark 1821. First published edition after a privately printed edition in 1813. Pirated edition printed in 1821 by Clark -- who spent 4 months in prison for it -- without Shelley's authorization.<br/><br/> Title page expertly repaired; although it lacks the advertising leaf and has the bowdlerized text with words being replaced by hyphens on several pages the rare dedication page in verse to Harriet his first wife who had committed suicide in 1816 usually missing is present as is Clark's imprint on the final page of text.<br/><br/> Clark unknown books
18211213New York: J. Baldwin 1821. First American Edition. Full-Leather. 12mo. 1-3 4-181 1pp. publisher's ad; with the engraved title only; page 24 misnumbered 4; bound in full contemporary green straight grained morocco bordered in decorative rolls in blind slightly raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated red morocco spine label gilt all edges gilt; edges lightly rubbed; neat previous owner's name on front free end sheet; early repair to upper joint. Internally clean without foxing; housed in a cloth slipcase. The first of Shelley's work to be published in America. <br/><br/> J. Baldwin hardcover books
1862295516London: Edward Moxon 1862. First. hardcover. fine. Edited by Richard Garnett. Slim 12mo 191 pages beautifully rebound in full black morocco gilt geometric pattern on spine and front and rear covers a.e.g. London: Edward Moxon 1862. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Scarce First Edition of this compilation of Shelley s poems essays letters and miscellaneous fragments.<br/><br/> Edward Moxon unknown books
186241242London: Edward Moxon & Co 1862. 12mo pp. xvi 191; later three-quarter green calf over marbled boards gilt-stamped spine in 6 compartments 2 red gilt-lettered morocco spine labels t.e.g. marbled endpapers; spine faded to brown; edges spine head and foot rubbed interior fine. <br/><br/> Edward Moxon & Co hardcover books
18876291London Privately Printed 1887. 1887. Square 8vo. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. 64 pages. Later plain vellum paper wrappers. Very good. Rare. One of only 16 copies on large paper on Whatman paper watermarked 1886. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons. Soft cover. London, Privately Printed, 1887. hardcover books
