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[John Sheffield]

The Temple of Death, A Poem

A Translation out of French


Published by H.Hills London 1709

Edition Piracy

Condition Worn

Translated from P.Habert. Disbound, pages darkened throughout with some staining.

Price £15.00


16pp


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WB1345

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Original Poetry by Victor & Cazire

with Elizabeth Shelley

Ed. Richard Garnett

Published by John Lane London & New York 1897

Edition 1st thus

Condition Good

Text reproduces the first edition of 1810, with a 17pp introduction by Garnett. Uncut edges spotted, some scattered spotting to text. Original paper-covered boards & labels, darkened at spine. Small bookplate of Arnold Yates.

Price £45.00


66pp


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WB1346

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley’s Lost Letters to Harriet

Ed. Leslie Hotson

Published by Faber & The Atlantic Monthly Press London & Boston 1930

Edition 1st   Limitation 546/750 signed by the editor

Condition Very good

Printed on English hand-made paper. Text very clean but uncut edges partly darkened & frayed in places. Top edge gilt, somewhat tarnished. Gilt-lettered blue cloth slightly darkened at spine & with small stain at head of upper board.

Price £20.00


90pp


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WB1347

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Esdaile Poems

Ed. Neville Rogers

Published by Clarendon 1966

Edition 1st such

Condition Near fine

Early minor poems from the ‘Esdaile Notebook’ edited from the MSS with textual introduction & commentary by Rogers. Cloth in somewhat soiled dustjacket.

Price £18.00


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WB921

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote throughout the United Kingdom


Published by Reeves & Turner: Shelley Soc. Pub. Extra Series 5 1887

Edition 1st   Limitation 500

Condition Worn

Facsimile of the holograph manuscript (in fact a forgery) with an introduction by H. Buxton Forman. Original boards badly worn. Uncut edges dusty. Frontispiece loose. Laid in is a 16pp article by H.S.Salt, ‘Hogg’s "Life of Shelley"’.

Price £15.00


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WB843

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley and his Circle 1773-1822: Volume II

Manuscripts and Essays 1809-1811

Ed. Kenneth Neill Cameron

Published by Harvard UP 1961

Edition 1st

Condition Good

B/w plates including facsimile mss. Neville Rogers’ ownership signature and with his occasional pencil notes, particularly to Contents. A used but useful copy, two-tone cloth partly darkened.

Price £30.00


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WB844

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley’s Prose in the Bodleian Manuscripts

Ed. A.H. Koszul

Published by Henry Frowde 1910

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Original cloth with gilt.

Price £18.00


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WB847

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adonais

faithfully reprinted from the edition of 1821


Published by Methuen 1904

Edition 1st thus

Condition Good

Some spotting to edges, boards somewhat soiled.

Price £15.00


List ref
WB848

 

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