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RAMAGE John; SHELLEY Percy ByssheABAA

Poems of Shelley

03823London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. History is a Cyclic Poem Written by Time Upon the Memories of Man" A Superb Example of Ramage's Remarkably Delicate Careful and Elaborate Gilt Work RAMAGE binder. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. Poems of Shelley. Selected and Arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. Golden Treasury Series. Sixteenmo 5 13/16 x 3 7/8 inches; 148 x 97 mm. lxvi 2 340 pp. Title-page with vignette of Field Place - Shelley's birth place. Beautifully bound ca. 1926 by Ramage of London stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full green crushed levant morocco covers paneled in gilt surrounding a very intricate design in gilt spine with five raised bands decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board-edges wide decorative gilt turn-ins cream watered silk liners and end-leaves all edges gilt. Neat early ink presentation dated 1927 on front blank. A superb example of a later Ramage binding. Born in London in 1836 John Ramage served an apprenticeship with John Wright then went to Paris where he was able to work with the distinguished Marcellin Lortic 1822-1892 who opened his shop on the Rue St. HonorÃ© in 1840. In 1860 Ramage purchased the binding business of Alexander Banks Jr. in Edinburgh then returned three years later to London where he was in business at various locations into the 20th century. Though the range of their designs is broad Ramage bindings are celebrated for their remarkably delicate careful and elaborate gilt work. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric as well as epic poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein. Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind To a Skylark Music When Soft Voices Die The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy. His other major works include a groundbreaking verse drama The Cenci 1819 and long visionary poems such as Queen Mab later reworked as The Daemon of the World Alastor The Revolt of Islam AdonaÃ¯s Prometheus Unbound 1820 - widely considered to be his masterpiece - Hellas: A Lyrical Drama 1821 and his final unfinished work The Triumph of Life 1822. London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1926 unknown books

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SHELLEY Percy Bysshe; ESSEX HOUSE PRESS; ASHBEE JR. artist; FARGE Marie Louise binder J. R.ABAA

Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama

04935London: Essex House Press Edward Arnold 1904. Essex House Press Prometheus Unbound In a Fine Designer Binding by Marie-Louise Farge SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. ASHBEE C.R. artist. FARGE Marie-Louise binder. Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama. Printed at Essex House Campden Gloucestershire under the care of C.R. Ashbee. London: Edward Arnold 1904. Limited to 200 copies on paper of which this is no. 96. Folio 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches; 293 x 213 mm. iv 96 pp. Printed in 'Prayer Book' type in black and red. Woodcut frontispiece by C.R. Ashbee lettered in red. Specially bound ca. 1925 by Marie-Louise H. Farge stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full maroon crushed levant morocco covers multi-bordered in blind and richly decorated in a fine gilt design front cover lettered in gilt. Smooth spine decorated and lettered in gilt wide decorative gilt turn-ins hand-made marbled endpapers top edge gilt others uncut. Housed in the original fleece-lined beveled-edge brown cloth slipcase. A very fine copy. Prometheus Unbound is a four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1820. It 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. It is inspired by the classical Prometheia a trilogy of plays attributed to Aeschylus. Shelley's play concerns Prometheus' release from captivity but unlike Aeschylus' version there is no reconciliation between Prometheus and Jupiter Zeus. Instead Jupiter is abandoned by his supportive elements and falls from power which allows Prometheus to be released. Shelley's play is a closet drama meaning it was not intended to be produced on the stage. In the tradition of Romantic poetry Shelley wrote for the imagination intending his play's stage to reside in the imaginations of his readers. However the play is filled with suspense mystery and other dramatic effects that make it in theory performable. "On 11 March 1818 the Shelleys and Claire left England to take Claire's daughter Allegra to her father Byron who had taken up residence in Venice.He then began the long verse drama Prometheus Unbound a re-writing of the lost play by the ancient Greek poet Aeschylus which features talking mountains and a petulant spirit who overthrows Jupiter. The Shelleys moved between various Italian cities during these years; in later 1818 they were living in Florence in a pensione on the Via Valfonda. Shelley completed Prometheus Unbound in Rome and he spent mid-1819 writing a tragedy The Cenci in Leghorn Livorno." Wikipedia. Charles Robert Ashbee 1863-1942 was a British architect and designer who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement that took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris. Ashbee set up his Guild and School of Handicraft in 1888 in London while a resident at Toynbee Hall one of the original settlements set up to alleviate inner city poverty in this case in the slums of Whitechapel. The fledgling venture was first housed in temporary space but by 1890 had workshops at Essex House Mile End Road in the East End with a retail outlet in the heart of the West End in fashionable Brook Street Mayfair more accessible to the Guild's patrons. The School closed in 1895 which Ashbee blamed on "the failure of the Technical Education Board of the L.C.C. to keep its word with the School Committee and the impossibility of carrying on costly educational work in the teeth of state aided competition." The following year the L.C.C. opened the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In 1902 the Guild moved to Chipping Campden in the picturesque Cotswolds of Gloucestershire where a sympathetic community provided local patrons but where the market for craftsman-designed furniture and metalwork was saturated by 1905. He was a member of the Order of Chaeronea a secret society founded by penal reformer and poet George Cecil Ives in 1897 for the cultivation of a homosexual ethos. To conceal his sexuality at a time when homosexuality was illegal Ashbee married the accomplished musician Janet Forbes in 1898 and had a rather progressive atypical marriage resulting in four daughters. The pair wrote a collaborative journal and Janet became a valued member of the Arts and Crafts community embracing the wider socialist concepts of the movement by setting up a craft cooperative with her husband. Ashbee also espoused the work of Edward Carpenter philosopher of the simple life and early gay rights campaigner who he considered his mentor. V & A. Marie-Louise Farge fl. 1890-1939 was quoted first by Crauzat as a young woman bookbinder and then by FlÃ©ty in the Decorators and Bookbinders sectionÂ as an amateur who participated in exhibitions between 1890 and 1939 so we can conclude that Marie-Louise Farge was already active from 1925. In a 1937 issue of the journal Arts et MÃ©tiers Graphique Alphonse-Jules Gonon former publisher and having become a bookbinder himself we learn that Madame Farge does everything in her studio from papers to gilding.Â Her style elegantly combines a certain fin-de-siÃ¨cle archaism with a very modern sensibility that perfectly suits this "lyrical drama". Â Tomkinson. A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses. p. 75 Essex House Press # 43; Ransom Essex House Press #43; Franklin. The Private Presses p. 200. London: [Essex House Press] Edward Arnold , 1904 unknown books

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Shelley Percy ByssheABAA

QUEEN MAB

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

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