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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
189235119London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner 1892. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good. Alice Havers. Circa 1892. 1st edition. A Good copy. 4to. 40 pp. bound in publishers decorated green cloth. Cloth has overall rubbing and light soiling with some fading. Decorative gilt is dulled in spots. Hinges show webbing. Previous owners name on title page. Paper is toned especially at edges. Illustrations are bright and unmarked. Hildesheimer & Faulkner hardcover
189231666London: Bernard Quaritch. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. University library withdrawl with hinges bolstered by tape; front hinge loosening; text block tight and square in steel blue boards with gilt spine titles; contents bright and unmarked. ; 818 pages . Bernard Quaritch hardcover
18775435New York: D. Appleton and Company 1877. Volumes II - III. Illustrated. Both volumes measuring approximately 10" x 7" with 576 numbered pages in each volume. Volume II contains The Heir Of Mondolfo by Mary Shelley on pages 12-23. First printing of this Shelley story. <br /> <br /> These volumes are in poor condition. Both boards on volume II are detached from binding. Volume II spine is missing. Volume III spine is heavily chipped with large missing pieces. Volume III boards are loose with cracked hinges but still hanging on. Moderate scuffing and chipping to all edges and boards. Moderate scuffing and foxing all edges of textblock. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown of both volumes. Many front pages are loose from volume II. Interior pages have minor foxing to both volumes. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N12-63. D. Appleton and Company unknown
18874939747Reeves and Turner 1887. Volume 5. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. The Shelley Society's Publications Extra Series. Large 8vo. Grey paper binding with black lettering on front board and backstrip. Bumped corners and some general wear. A couple of areas of damp staining on boards. Backstrip frayed at ends. Frontispiece semi detached. Otherwise pages are secure and clean. Minor foxing. Untrimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN: Reeves and Turner hardcover
188792800The Shelley Society 1887. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. dr2. The Shelley Society's Publications Extra Series No. 5. Covers very worn with bare spots along the edges. Interior in good shape. The Shelley Society hardcover
188765158London published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner 1887. BY THE HERMIT OF MARLOW PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. FAC-SIMILE OF THE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY H. BUXTON FORMAN. 4to. 6381pp. Frontispiece and 18 leaves of facsimiles of Shelley's manuscript. PRESENTATION COPY FROM DENNIS SKINNER MP for Bolsover WITH A ONE PAGE TYPED LETTER FROM HIM on House of Lord's headed notepaper c.1992 loosely inserted: 'You will be pleased to know I have received hundreds of letters backing my position on the monachy.I am not alone! Dennis Skinner was Labour MP for Bolsover. Includes a facsimile of Shelley's manuscript. The Shelley Society Publications Extra Series No. 5. unknown
1887157787London: published for the Shelley Society 1887. Together with an extract from 'Some early writings by Shelley' by Prof. E. Dowden. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pp. 641printer's imprint on recto of lower free endpaper; demy 8vo; green papered boards lettered in black slightly soiled edges and spine extremities lightly worn with a few small surface chips; uncut and largely unopened; endpapers offset a couple of spots of foxing; published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner London 1887. Third edition revised; one of 250 copies on Van Gelder paper. The Shelley Society's Publications. Second series No. 2. Smith Shelley p. 322. Smith also cites 3 copies on vellum and 16 on Whatman's paper in pink papered boards both in quarto format with a frontispiece. An index was added to the third edition and a New Preface was substituted for the earlier Introductory note. The first and second editions were published in 1886 and Wise notes with satisfaction in the Editor's Preface: 'It is perhaps worthy of notice that already within twelve months of publication the first edition is being sold at a premium in the second-hand market' p. 16. published for the Shelley Society unknown
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
1886mon0000058030Reeves and Turner 1886-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Pisa with types of didot MDCCCXXI on faded and browned cloth missing spine cover Reeves and Turner hardcover
1885GEN36-E-15London : The Shelley Society Reeves and Turner 1885. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. A limited edition print of Shelley's Alastor. and Other Poems. A reprint of the first edition restricted to 404 copies. This copy is one of the 350 printed to 'toned paper'. Published as a part of the Shelley Society second series of Shelley's works. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD 1906-1973 a noted book collector and diarist. The compilation and editorial factors of this work were by Bertram Dobell who writes the prefatory note. Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude was first published in 1816. It is considered to be one of the first of Shelley's major poems. The poem initially received negative reviews due to its obscurity. However there were positive reviews written for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and The Examiner. In original paper covered boards. Externally generally smart. Age toning and rubbing to the paper covered boards and spine. A few small marks to the rear board. Internally generally firmly bound though strained in places. Pages are bright with scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed The Shelley Society, Reeves and Turner hardcover
1887500048505The Shelley Society 1887. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. <br/> <br/> The Shelley Society hardcover
1887500048476The Shelley Society / Reeves and Turner 1887. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good. Second Edition Thus. One of only 150 copies <br/> <br/> The Shelley Society / Reeves and Turner hardcover
1886AQ32402London: Published for The Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner 1886. One of 300 copies printed. xlvi101pp 2. Unopened in original publisher's printed blue paper boards. Rubbed loss to head of dulled spine. Endpapers browned else internally clean and crisp. One of 300 copies of an 1886 facsimile of Alastor and other poems published by the Shelley Society and edited by Bertram Dobell 1842-1914. Originally published in 1816 Shelley's long poem tells the story of a poet who travels and eventually transcends the living realm. . 12mo. Published for The Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner hardcover
1886527587London: Reeves and Turner and B. Dobel. Published For the Shelley Society 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition by this publisher. Edited by Bertram Dobell. 12mo. Blue-green paper-covered boards printed in black. Copyright page is dated 1885 the spine and front cover is dated 1886 as issued. Prints a six-page prefatory note by Bertram Dobell. Spine and front cover a bit tanned with small chips at the extremities a pleasing very good copy. Limited to 350 copies issued as 'The Shelley Society's Publications Second Series No. 3 from a total printing of 404 copies. Colophon states: "Reprinted at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham Reeves and Turner, and B. Dobel. (Published For the Shelley Society) hardcover
1886KK4236Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner 1886. ~Original blue printed boards slight scuffing to spine minor wear to corners and ends of spine. Page edges deckled. Light browning to endpages but not title page. Last 3pp. are Shelley Society publication list. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by editor: 'Dr. Tebb. From Bertram Dobell. June 21 / 95'. Printed on laid paper. Bertram Dobell 1842-1914 bookseller and literary scholar. Dobell a largely self-taught bibliophile and scholar whose first job was as a baker's errand boy became the proprietor of two bookshops on Charing Cross Road ' held in high esteem by the leading bibliophiles of his day' ODNB. Dobell was an accomplished and prolific critic and editor chiefly remembered for correctly identifying the rediscovered manuscripts of Poetical Works and Centuries of Meditation as the work of Thomas Traherne. The 'Dr. Tebb' of Dobell's dedicatory inscription in this volume is almost certainly Dr. Albert Edward Tebb c.1864-1943 a medical doctor who attended many leading literary and artistic figures in late 19th- and early 20th-century London including Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford. Tebb was 'a knowledgeable collector of avant-garde prints and first editions a serious violinist of apparently modest skill and an early advocate and practitioner of socialized medicine' Bock Martin. '"What Has Happened To Poor Tebb": A Biographical Sketch of Conrad's Physician.' The Conradian vol. 23 no. 1 1998 p. 2. Tebb like Dobell an established if peripheral figure on the London literary scene would most likely have frequented Dobell's bookshops and is a believable purchaser of this lovingly produced facsimile edition of Shelley's first major poem a 'enigmatic and haunting study of longing desire and what in the 'Preface' Shelley calls 'self-centred seclusion'' ODNB. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable others on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edn. Hardback. Hardback. Very Good. xlvi vi 2 101 2 3pp. Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner Hardcover
1885L061569Reeves and Turner . And B. Dobell 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Slight wear to head and foot of spine chipping; slight soiling rubbing and browning to covers boards; chiefly to extremities; slight bumping to corners; ex-library rubberstamp on rear free endpaper; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. viii vi 2 101 2 pages. Date on spine and upper cover: 1886. 'A facsimile reprint of the original edition first published in 1816' title page; includes the editor's prefatory note. One of 350 copies on 'toned Paper' of a total edition of 404 copies; see limitation statement on title page verso; 'Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner' upper cover. Reeves and Turner ... And B. Dobell hardcover
18855741London: Reeves and Turner. Very Good- with no dust jacket; No marks clean tight binding owners . script name on fep; brn cloth with spine label and blk lettering; edges . rubbed mostly at spine and corners; spine label rubbed and hard to read; . endsheets toned with inscription uncut pages;. 1885. Hardcover. Limited edition of 50 reprints on Whatman's Handmade paper; script inscription on fep from Bertram Dobell a 19th century bookseller and literary scholar; originally published 1816 with facsimile of the original title page; ; 101 pages . Reeves and Turner hardcover
188526269London: Reeves and Turner 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 1 of 404 copies this being one of 350 copies on toned paper. The book is a facsimile of the original edition of Alastor first published in 1816. It was done for the Shelley Society. In green paper boards with title author and publisher in black on front cover. Covers and spine are chipped bumped and worn but still nice. Interior pages are very good except for occasional small tear along fore-edge. 8 page prefatory note plus six page preface plus 101 pages. POE/101812. Reeves and Turner hardcover
18775444New York: D. Appleton and Company 1877. Measuring approximately 10" x 7" with 576 numbered pages in each volume. This volume contains the first printing of Mary Shelley's "The Heir Of Mondolfo" on pages 12-23. <br /> <br /> This volume is in very good minus condition. Moderate wear and staining to the boards. Textblock edges are marbled. Textblock is moderately foxed. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N12-79. D. Appleton and Company unknown
182042<p><strong>SHELLEY PERCY BYSSHE</strong></p><p>Autograph letter signed with his initials <em>P. B. S.</em> three pages 4to Pisa 20th July 1820 to his cousin Thomas Medwin <em>´My dear Medwin´</em>.</p><p>Shelley writes an interesting letter including references to two of his masterpieces stating that he has received Medwin´s letter from the mountains and remarking <em>´How much I envy you or rather how much I sympathise in the delights of your wandering. I have a passion for such expeditions although partly the capriciousness of my health & partly the want of the incitement of a companion keep me at home. I see the mountains the sky & the trees from my windows & recollect as an old man does the mistresses of his youth the raptures of a more familiar intercourse; but without his regrets for their forms are yet living in my mind´</em> adding that he hopes his cousin will not pass by Tuscany without paying a visit <em>´Mrs. Shelley unites with me in assuring.that whatever else may be found deficient a sincere welcome is at least in waiting for you´</em>.</p><p>Shelley proceeds to write at length regarding two of his verse dramas <em>´I am delighted with your approbation of my 'Cenci' & am encouraged to wish to present you with my 'Prometheus Unbound' a drama also but a composition of a totally different character. I do not know if it be wise to affect variety in compositions or whether the attempt to excel in many ways does not deter from excellence in one particular kind. 'Prometheus Unbound' is in the merest spirit of ideal poetry & not as the name would indicate a mere imitation of the Greek drama or indeed if I have been successful is it an imitation of anything. But you will judge - I hear it is just printed & I probably shall receive copies from England before I see you. Your objection to the 'Cenci' as to the introduction of the name of God is good in as much as the play is addressed to a Protestant people; but we Catholics speak eternally & familiarly of the 1st person of the Trinity; and amongst us religion is more interwoven with and is less extraneous to the system of ordinary life. As to Cenci´s curse I know not whether I can defend it or no. I wish I may be able since as it often happens respecting the worst point of an author´s work it is a particular favourite with me. I prided myself as since your approbation I hope that I had just cause to do upon the two concluding lines of the play. I confess I cannot approve of the squeamishness which excludes the exhibition of such subjects from the scene´ </em>at this point of the letter two-and-a-half lines of text have been struck through seemingly by Shelley himself.</p><p>The poet asks <em>´What think you of my boldness´ </em>and reflects on a future project a drama which would remain unfinished at his death <em>´I mean to write a play in the spirit of human nature without prejudice or passion entitled 'Charles the 1st'. So vanity intoxicates people; but let those few who praise my verses & in whose approbation I take so much delight answer for this sin´</em> further making reference to contemporary events involving the British monarchy <em>´</em><em>I </em><em>wonder what in the world the Queen has done. I should not wonder after the whispers I have heard to find that the Green Bag contained evidence that she had imitated Pasiphae & that the Committee should recommend to Parliament a bill to exclude all minotaurs from the succession. What silly stuff is this to employ a great nation about. I wish the King & the Queen like Punch & his wife would fight out their disputes in person´</em> before closing his letter with the lines <em>´This warm weather agrees excellently with me; I only wish it would last all the year. many things both to say & to hear be referred until we meet´</em>. With integral address panel in Shelley´s hand a couple of thin neat strips of the remains of the guard to the edges and centre. Autograph letters of Shelley are extremely rare as a result of his tragic death at the young age of 29 and the present example is particularly rich in its literary content. Some very light extremely minor age wear VG</p><p>Thomas Medwin 1788-1869 English writer poet and translator remembered for his biography of Shelley and for published recollections of his friend Lord Byron.</p><p>The Cenci. A Tragedy in Five Acts 1820 was written by Shelley in the summer of 1819 and inspired by the House of Cenci a real Roman family. The play was not considered stageable in its day owing to the themes of incest and parricide as well as the negative depiction of the Roman Catholic Church all subjects Shelley reflects on in the present letter and was not performed in public in England until over a century later in 1922.</p><p><em>Prometheus Unbound</em> 1820 is a four-act lyrical drama which is concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus. The play is a closet drama not intended for stage production. In the tradition of Romantic poetry Shelley wrote for the imagination intending his play's stage to reside in the imaginations of his readers. Filled with suspense mystery and other dramatic effects W. B. Yeats famously described the work as being ´among the sacred books of the world´.</p><p>The deleted passage of the present letter according to the published version in Volume IV of The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley originally read ´a squeamishness the produce as I firmly believe of a lower tone of the public mind and foreign to the majestic and confident wisdom of the golden age of our country´.</p><p>One of the final parts of Shelley´s letter makes reference to the events of 1820 whereby King George IV who had recently succeeded to the throne attempted to divorce his long-estranged wife. Caroline of Brunswick. In order to secure his divorce the King had a special bill moved in the House of Lords and the evidence of the Queen´s adultery was presented to parliament in two green bags. Ultimately the measure was withdrawn by the government and Caroline remained married to the King until her death a year later.</p>
1843146431October 1843. Unpublished autograph letter: "Gentlemen. You would greatly oblige me." An unpublished autograph letter from Mary Shelley to the publishers Longman Brown Green & Longmans. Dated October 1843 White Cottage Putney where she had moved the previous month she requests some specific volumes from Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia a project to which she had contributed a few years prior. This letter was recently extracted from a volume and so was not known to the editors of her correspondence. Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia was a mammoth 133-volume publication published between 1829 and 1846 to which many eminent figures of the day including Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Moore contributed. The Cyclopaedia was organized into nine "cabinets" or areas rather than the alphabetic organization of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Bound in cloth and priced at six shillings each the volumes were an affordable authoritative reference work. Shelley who contributed to Italian Lives 1835; Spanish and Portuguese Lives 1837; and French Lives 1839 was the only woman among the 38 acknowledged contributors. In this letter she writes: "Gentlemen you were good enough to let me have when writing for the Cyclopedia several of its historical series but they were not then complete. I have seven volumes of the Hist. of England by Sir James Mackintosh - and 2 of Moore's Hist of Ireland. You would greatly oblige me if you would complete them for me." Thomas Moore contributed four volumes on the History of Ireland and Mackintosh ten on the History of England. Single sheet 179 x 114 mm written on one side and mounted 274 x 202 mm. In excellent condition. hardcover
1843020641Rome 6 April 1843. Letter. Mild crease from mailing. Near Fine. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Mary Shelley" written in Italian on one sheet of an 8" x 5" piece of paper folded to 4" x 5" dated 6 April 1843. A rough translation: <br />"Esteemed Sir. Thank you so much for your card -- and your kindness. I feel ashamed thinking about all the inconvenience that you are experiencing due to that annoying matter strikethrough of Tozzetti but I am pleased that he is not obtaining all he was looking for. He deserved nothing. Thank you for the letter -- maybe others will come for us either sent to your address or simply to Florence. Would you graciously send someone to the post office to ask for our letters and send them here. My debt I would come and pay. I hope it is not too big to be a burden on my conscience and I will find a way to repay it. strikethrough I hope that the weather has improved and that Nerina feels better. I would really love to see you and Nerina again. And who knows if I won't see both in England but first it is easy that we will meet in Florence. Goodbye dear sir. Please consider me your servant and friend. M Shelley." <br />The recipient Tuscan nobleman Bartolomeo Cini was married to Nerina King daughter of Irish writer Margaret King who was a favored pupil of Mary's mother Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley was in correspondence with him in regard to getting his assistance to retrieve letters by her husband Percy that were sent to King. Shelley's 1840s travels through Europe with her son Percy and his friends formed the basis of her travelogue RAMBLES IN GERMANY AND ITALY IN 1840 1842 AND 1843. <br/><br/> unknown
182912061033 Somerset Street London: 23 December 1829. A very scarce signed letter of one page from Mary Shelley to John George Cochrane the Scottish editor and publisher of the Foreign Quarterly Review describing "M. Beyles' book" Stendhal's Promenades dans Rome as "so trite so unentertaining - so very commonplace that I have found it quite impossible to do anything with it". This letter was likely written in reply to an invitation to review the book and provides a scarce nugget of literary criticism. This letter is one of 21 autograph letters acquired from the Mary Shelley specialist Professor Jean de Palacio of the University of Lille - this small clutch aside autograph letters from Mary Shelley very seldom come to market. Single leaf 182 x 111 mm. Remains of wax seal generally faded and spotted small patch of tape repair to verso fair condition. unknown
1895140318Chicago: Way and Williams 1895. publisher's cloth binding. Rogers Bruce. 8vo. publisher's cloth binding. 185 pages. First edition of which this is one of 75 numbered copies printed on French handmade paper with the title page two initial letters and tailpiece designed by Bruce Rogers Kraus 9; Warde 5. Heavy foxing to preliminary pages and moderate foxing throughout. Minor rubbing to the extremities spine age darkened. Printed by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. Chicago at the Lakeside Press. A very scarce book.<BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> "Way & Williams' most notable book of 1895 was an edition of Shelley's translation of Plato's Banquet designed by Bruce Rogers in an obvious imitation of the Kelmscott Press style. The intent of the firm to establish themselves as publishers of fine books in limited editions was clear" Kraus. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers 1870-1957 who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books. Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States" ANB. Francis Meynell stated that Rogers was "the greatest artificer of the book who ever lived Way and Williams unknown
