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1884271651884 Paris Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur 1884; 84p 1 volume petit IN4 broché. Couverture rempliée, manque au dos fendu). Traduction de Tola Dorian, édition originale .
18861400123London: Reeves and Turner 1886. Book. Good/Very Good. Board. Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. " One of a hundred copies printed on fine paper " Reprinted from the original edition of 1822. Edited by Thomas Wise. Published for the Shelley Society. pp viii xi 60 7 Internally very good with a little browning number of leaves uncut. Binding firm Cover sound small label with ink refs on front board some scuffing to spine . Reeves and Turner unknown
18873326The Shelley Society London 1887. First Thus. Hardcover Printed Boards. Poor Condition. Illustrator: W. B. Scott. The Shelley Society's Publications - Second Series No. 5. this being the large paper edition printed by Richard Clay & Sons of London & Bungay Suffolk for "Private Circulation Only" & limited to Fifteen Copies & also the only edition with the full-page etched frontispiece engraving by W. B. Scott. The Contents page lists: Editor's Preface; Mrs. Shelley's Note on Hellas; Dr. Garnett's Note on the Prologue to Hellas; Prologue to Hellas; Editor's Notes on the Prologue to Hellas; Shelley's List of Errata for Hellas; & Editor's Additional List of Errata for Hellas. There is no table of Contents in the original edition of Hellas. After these 58 LVIII pages the 60-page facsimile copy has grey paper wrappers with a pasted white paper label. The contents included are: Dedication to Prince Mavrocordato; Shelley's Preface; Dramatis Personae; Hellas; Shelley's Notes on Hellas & the poem Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon. Limited Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 58 60 pages. Covers are rather grubby. spine has disintegrated with age & wear. no Dust Jacket as published. Deckled outer & bottom edges rough cut. Black titles front. original covers are detached & the rear cover has a short split about the middle of the outer edge. Pink Boards. Illustrator: W. B. Scott. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Theatre & Plays; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Dramatic Works; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3326. . The Shelley Society hardcover
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
182984109London: J Brooks. A Rare copy certainly in original boards uncut with spine rubbed and repaired at some stage.This issue of the six weeks tour is very rare title with a new title page onlythe original issue was anonymous but this one has Shelley's name on the Title Page.The original label to spine is present but very worn.Outer boards are marked in places with ink stain to the top edge of the upper cover.There is one former owner's bookplate showing to the front pastedown.Contents remain clean for the most parta fragile binding but still holding.Deckled page edges or rough cut.The work is a ravel narrative by the English Romantic Authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley and describes a couple of trips taken by Mary Percy and Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont one of which was across Europe in 1814 and one to Lake Geneva in 1816.The work is divided into 3 sections and the text consists of a journal four letters and Percy Shelley's famous poem 'Mont Blanc'.The text was mostly organised by Mary Shelley and in 1840 she revised the journal and the letters publishing them in a collection of Percy Shelley's writings.A wonderful collector's item12mo 183pp 1929 . Good. Hardcover. 1829. J Brooks hardcover
18987046London: Aldine House 1898. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo 60pp. Original publisher's blue pebble-grain cloth with bold gilt design and lettering on cover. 12 superb wood-engraved illustrations by Laurence Housman including: title frontispiece and eleven full-page. Printed on heavy paper TEG. This is a near fine copy of a beautifully illustrated Arts & Crafts book of the late 19th Century. Aldine House unknown
183273181Paris Fournier Jeune 1832 3 vol. relié 3 vol. in-8, reliure demi-veau vert, dos à nerfs ornés de filets et roulettes dorés, caissons décorés à froid, tranches jaunes, VIII-424-(2), (4)-IV-434-(2) et (4)-439-(3) pp. (reliure de l'époque). Tête de série réunissant les trois premiers tomes sur les 12 publiés entre 1832 et 1833. Ces trois volumes contiennent entre autres, en pré-originale, "Le Comte Chabert" (Le colonel Chabert) de Balzac, "Antoine Pinchon" de Jules Janin, "L'île des fleurs" de George Sand (signé "Sands"), "La rose rouge" d'Alexandre Dumas, "Le frère et la soeur" de Mary Shelley. Dos un peu usés, quelques rousseurs très éparses. Sinon ensemble en belle condition dans une jolie reliure du temps. Rare.
183273181Paris Fournier Jeune 1832 3 vol. relié 3 vol. in-8, reliure demi-veau vert, dos à nerfs ornés de filets et roulettes dorés, caissons décorés à froid, tranches jaunes, VIII-424-(2), (4)-IV-434-(2) et (4)-439-(3) pp. (reliure de l'époque). Tête de série réunissant les trois premiers tomes sur les 12 publiés entre 1832 et 1833. Ces trois volumes contiennent entre autres, en pré-originale, "Le Comte Chabert" (Le colonel Chabert) de Balzac, "Antoine Pinchon" de Jules Janin, "L'île des fleurs" de George Sand (signé "Sands"), "La rose rouge" d'Alexandre Dumas, "Le frère et la soeur" de Mary Shelley. Dos un peu usés, quelques rousseurs très éparses. Sinon ensemble en belle condition dans une jolie reliure du temps. Rare.
184600312LEAFLETS OF MEMORY: AN ANNUAL OF 1846 E. H. Butler 1846 first edition some foxing to the end-papers the next few leaves and paste-downs some light scattered foxing to a modest amount of the text block save for the margins of the illustrations which are heavily foxed with some off-setting to adjacent pages else a tight vg copy in the publishers original full leather binding with gold-gilt decoration to the covers and spine all edges gold-gilt as well with both the "Presented to" and "Half Title" pages displaying their colors very well. This anthology yields contributions by Reynell Coates R. Bernal Joseph Hornor Charlotte Norman Henry B. Hirst Mary Shelley George Croly Lord Nugent Charles Swain Charles Berkeley John Clare & Charles F. Sterling. Tales both supernatural and criminous. E. H. Butler hardcover
1846019113Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co. 1846. FIRST EDITION first printing. Full brown morocco leather with gilt design on both the cover and the spine moderate wear to the extremities. Previous owner's name plate on the endpaper along with stamped name several chromolithographic plates. Includes a story by Mary Shelly entitled "The Dream". Overall in FAIR condition. Photos available upon request. First Edition. Full Morocco Leather. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. E.H. Butler & Co. Hardcover
1894pbs15London: Thomas J. Wise The Ashley Library. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Tipped in cutting on paste-down of volume I. 1894. Limited Edition 30. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover with bevelled edges. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". ix 74pp; vii 69pp. Privately printed on hand made paper. . Thomas J. Wise [The Ashley Library] hardcover
1852951865London: Edward Moxon Dover Street 1852. leather_bound. Sehr gut. vi 1 1 blank 165 2 1 blank pp. - 8 pp. List of Books. Ganzleder Handeinband mit reicher Vergoldung. Octavo ca. 197 x 124 mm. Einband minimalst berieben erste und letzte Blätter braunfleckig sehr schönes Exemplar. Contemporary olive morocco 203 x 133 x 175 mm spine with five raised bands panelled and lettered in gilt richly gilt with gilt fleural tools and lines boards with gilt line panels. Top edge gilt burgundy endleaves. Bound by Riviere & Son and signed on upper turn-in. This is the first edition of the Browning Essay. Edward Moxon bought twenty three letters at a Sotheby & Wilkinson sale 12 May 1851. The vendor of these letters was the bookseller William White who had obtained them with other items including Byron forgeries from 'Major George Gordon de Luna Byron' also known as DeBibler who claimed to be the illegitimate son of the poet Byron by a Spanish lady. The son of Sir Francis Palgrave realised that Letter XXI to William Godwin from Florence was cribbed from a letter to his father. "An ingenious forgery perpetrated by an impostor claiming to be the natural son of Lord Byron. Two genuine letters which happened to be in Moxon's hands were included. The fraud was discovered to the chagrin of Browning and Moxon who at once destroyed all obtainable copies of the book" Granniss. The two genuine letters in the present volume are No. V to Sir James Henry Lawrence August 17 1812 = Ingpen #186; de Ricci 186 and No. XXIII to Keats Pisa July 27 1820 = Ingpen #484; de Ricci 484. "One of the most ingenious literary forgeries of modern times is recalled by a rare work which a London bookdealer now is offering for sale for $375. It is an octavo volume published in 1852 by Moxon and entitled 'Letters of P. B. Shelley with an introductory essay by Robert Browning. Browning really wrote the introduction but not one of the twenty-five letters in it is by Shelley. These letters purported to have been sent by Percy Bysshe Shelley the eminent English poet to various of his friends. They were clever imitations of his hand-writing and bore the postmarks of cities in which it was known that Shelley had resided. The book made a sensation. Browning's preface is one of his most admired pieces of prose writing. Moxon sent copies of the work to a number of distinguished literary men among others Lord Alfred Tennyson. Francis Turner Palgrove son of Sir Francis Palgrove the historian was at the time a guest of Lord Tennyson. He picked up the book one day and opened it at a letter from Shelley to Godwin his father-in-law which seemed strangely familiar to him. He read on and found that the letter was a plagiarism of an article which his father had contributed to the Quarterly Review in 1840. Moxon when informed of this discovery said that he had bought the letters at a public sale and that they seemed authentic. The handwriting appeared genuine the seal was Shelley's and the addresses bore the stamp of the Post Offices of the italian towns where Shelley had lived. It happened that at the same sale the poet's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley had bought other letters of his father which were of a private and personal character. These letters were found to be at utter variance with well-known facts. Moxon at once suppressed the book the auctionneer said that the letters had come to him from a bookseller named W. White. White in turn said that he had bought them from an unknown woman who claimed to have received them from Fletcher Lord Byron's servant. Further search revealed that behind this unknown woman was the forger George Gordon Byron alias De Gibler. This adventurer bore a striking resemblance to Lord Byron had assumed his name and had passed himself off as Byron's natural son. He almost succeeded in palming off on a publisher some unedited remains of Lord Byron. As soon as the facts about the letters became known he disappeared ." New York Times February 26 1911: "Shelley's forged letters. Rare copy for sale in London the work of G. G. Byron". Erste Ausgabe. Handgefertigter olivbrauner Maroquinband mit fünf erhabenen Bünden auf dem Rücken auf zweitem und drittem Feld Verfasser und Titel am Fuß das Jahr die anderen mit reicher fleuraler Vergoldung und Randlinien. Die Deckel mit dreifachen Randrahmen aus Linienvergoldung; reiche Innenkantenvergoldung dreifarbige handgestochene Kapitale. Goldkopfschnitt vorn und unten unbeschnitten; Vorsätze aus burgunderrotem Papier. Signiert auf dem vorderen Ledereinschlag unten: Riviere & Son. - Vorsätze braunfleckig sonst sehr schönes dekoratives Exemplar dieser seltenen Ausgabe. Mit dem Exlibris aus Leder von Robert Hoe III 1839 - 1909 Bibliophiler Besitzer von Schnellpressenfabriken und Erfinder von Druckpressen lebte in New York wo er Eigentümer einer der größten amerikanischen privaten Bibliotheken war die 1911-1914 von den Anderson Galeries auktioniert wurde. Zusammen mit anderen Bibliophilen gründete er den Grolier Club dessen erster Präsident er wurde. Mit einem weiteren Exlibris von John Whipple Frothingham 1818 - 1894. - Some foxing to endleaves else fine. From the libraries of John Whipple Frothingham and Robert Hoe: "olive brown levant morocco gilt gilt top uncut by Rivière. Printed from forgeries and suppressed" Anderson Auction Company 1912 Part IV #2935. Leather bookplate of Robert Hoe. Robert Hoe III 1839 - 1909 was an American businessman and producer of printing press equipment. He was one of the organizers and first president of the Grolier Club 1884-1888 cf. Asaf/Wornom p. 149 and an extensive collector of rare books and manuscripts. His books were auctioneered by the Anderson Galleries 1911-1914. "Only a man of taste with a profound knowledge of books could have assembled a collection of such quality" Lee Edmonds Grove in "Grolier 75" p. 25. Printed on wove paper without watermark. - First edition. Granniss 127 - Wise 74 - Wise Browning 33 - Hoe/Anderson IV2935 this copy!. - RFM. Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage oder auf unserer Homepage. Wegen Urlaub kann Ihre Bestellung / Anfrage erst nach dem 21.06.2026 bearbeitet werden. - Because of holidays your order / question can be handled only after 06/21/2026. Edward Moxon, Dover Street hardcover
1894143164London: Privately printed 1894. First edition one of a stated limitation of 30 copies presentation copy inscribed on the half-title by the bibliographer editor and notorious forger "To Henry Norman With Kindest Regards from Thos. J. Wise. 7/iv/95". Henry Norman 1858-1939 was a Liberal politician and journalist who worked for a time at the Pall Mall Gazette under the editorship of W. T. Stead. He was on the staff of the Daily Chronicle from 1892 becoming assistant and literary editor in the year of this presentation. He was knighted in 1906 and made a baronet in 1915. As a journalist he is remembered for his revelations on the truth behind the Dreyfus affair. 2 vols small folio. Engraved device of the Ashley Library at end of each vol. Original red cloth over bevelled boards titles to spines in gilt untrimmed. A touch rubbed slight soiling the bindings otherwise sharp and unfaded very occasional faint toning else internally bright and fresh; a very good set indeed. hardcover
1887146191London: Walter Scott 1887. First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author to a fellow poet Shelley critic and literary biographer "To Mathilde Blind. With the admiration & affection of her friend William Sharp. Oct 27 '87". Blind was a recognized authority on poetry among her contemporaries lecturing on Shelley and editing A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1872. Blind 1841-1896 who wrote the first biography of George Eliot in 1883 was widely read and praised in Britain and America for her epic poem The Ascent of Man 1889 a feminist response to Darwin. She was a prominent voice in the New Woman movement a feminist ideal of the late 19th century that included figures such as Vernon Lee Amy Levy and Olive Schreiner. Like Shelley Blind's "burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work" Orlando. Blind's literary and political careers paralleled that of her close friend William Sharp 1855-1905 who later wrote her eulogy. A women's rights activist Sharp published under the pseudonym Fiona Macleod from 1893 but his erstwhile friend William Butler Yeats likely sensed Macleod's true identity. "The production of the female persona of Fiona seems to have caused Sharp frequent ill health culminating in a near total breakdown in 1897-8; moreover he had a feeling of being haunted by past lives" ODNB. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Bookplate of R. G. E. Sandbach on front pastedown. Spine slightly cocked and rubbed minor rubbing to covers couple of small marks to front cover faint foxing to endpapers and a couple of margins else bright. A very good copy. hardcover
1881VV249491881 42 p., 1 lithographed plate, disbound (original front cover of journal added loose). Unopened copy. Published in: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Depicting: Sigmodus scopifrons & Hypargus niveiguttatus drawn and lithographed by J. Smit.
1840Alibris.0001161Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 8 vo black cloth on boards. Covers of both volumes rubbed and corners bumped. Cover of volume 1 is cut 1 cm at top of spine and torn 17 cm down left side. Former owner's name on front free end paper of each volume. 2 volume set. Not on Amazon Lea and Blanchard hardcover
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
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
1835002398New York: Wallis & Newell 1835 1835. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 1 vol. 7-11/16" x 4-3/4" 228pp. bound in contemporary original floral grained mauve cloth gilt title to spine. Occasional minor foxing throughout inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss lacking rear blank endleaf bookplate to front pastedown matching ownership signature to front blank endleaf overall still a GOOD copy. Auction records locate only 3 copies EVER appearing at auction. Mary Shelley's most autobiographical work also published under the title of "The Beautiful Widow". "Lodore" follows the fortunes of Cornelia Lord Lodore's estranged wife and his daughter Ethel as they navigate societal expectations and personal struggles after Lodore's death with a focus on the relationships between women and the exploration of gender roles. New York: Wallis & Newell, 1835 hardcover
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. <p>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
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
1836AQ27067Amsterdam: Hendrik Frijlink 1836. viii 312pp. With a lithograph frontispiece by H. J. Backer. Original publisher's green moire cloth-backed cream paper boards contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked chipping to lettering-piece. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition in Dutch printed in the year after the English original 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'. . First edition in Dutch. 8vo. Hendrik Frijlink hardcover
1898006503London: Hacon and Ricketts Ballantyne Press 1898. Un volume in 16mo 117x15 cm di 54 pagine. Cartonato editoriale con etichetta di titolo al piatto. Dorso brunito. Edizione di 210 copie. All'ultimo foglio: Printed at the Ballantyne Press under the supervision of Charles Picketts MDCCCXCVIII. Sold by Hacon & Ricletts at The Sign of The Dial. Stampa e fregi in due colori. Raro e in perfette condizioni salvo la brunitura al dorso della legatura originale in cartone. Hacon and Ricketts, Ballantyne Press unknown
1826AQ31162London: William Benbow 1826. 2 144pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later full calf ruled in gilt and blind contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked upper board sunned. Bookplate of John A. Radford to FEP leaves browned and stained title and frontispiece chipped and small marginal loss to upper edge of terminal leaf. An early pirated edition of Shelley's poetry one of many publications produced by radicals and Reformists to spread Shelley's poetry affordably to a working-class audience. As such the typesetting is far from perfect with the running title being inverted on one occasion. The collection contains mostly shorter lyrics particularly sonnets dirges and other songs as well as multiple fragments. William Benbow 1787-1864 was linked to the piracy of Shelley as early as 1815 due to his association with George Cannon pseudonym Erasmus Perkins editor of the Theological Enquirer a periodical which reprinted substantial portions of Queen Mab. A nonconformist preacher and major figure of the Reform Movement Benbow was imprisoned several times for alleged political and publishing offences but never charged. . 8vo. William Benbow 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
