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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener

Now First Published. With an Introduction and Notes.

Ed. Bertram Dobell

Published by Bertram Dobell London 1908

Edition 1st thus, large paper issue

Condition Very good

Edges foxed & some internal foxing. Original cloth darkening at spine. Originally published by T.J.Wise in an edition limited to 30 copies 1900.

Price £45.00


351pp


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Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Philosophical View of Reform

Ed. T.W. Rolleston

Published by Humphrey Milford: OUP 1920

Edition 1st, large paper edition

Condition Near fine

Quarter cloth, 2 surface abrasions to lower board. Slight spotting to fore-edge.

Price £25.00


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Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Works

with His Life. In Two Volumes


Published by John Ascham London 1834

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

No half-titles. Frontispiece Volume 1 foxed and stained. Preliminaries somewhat soiled both volumes. 19th century morocco with gilt, rubbed, particularly at spine ends. Name in both volumes.

Price £180.00


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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adonais

An Elegy on the Death of John Keats


Published by Noel Douglas 1927

Edition Facsimile reprint   Limitation 6/100

Format  Quarto   Condition Good

Facsimile of the first edition, Pisa 1821. Printed on handmade rag paper, uncut, original vellum binding. Page edges slightly darkened, boards somewhat warped and darkened at spine. Bookplate.

Price £55.00


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WB1955

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Shelley Correspondence in the Bodleian Library

Ed. R.H. Hill

Published by The Bodleian Library Oxford 1926

Edition 1st

Format  Quarto   Condition Near fine

Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, mainly unpublished, from the Collection presented to the Library by Lady Shelley in 1892; with a chronological table of the collection and a list of other Shelley manuscripts & relics in the library. Some occasional foxing otherwise a fine copy in original wrappers.

Price £50.00


48pp


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WB1956

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Posthumous Poems of Shelley

Mary Shelley’s Fair Copy Book Bodleian MS. Shelley adds. d.9

Ed. Irving Massey

Published by McGill-Queen's UP Montreal 1969

Edition 1st

Format  Octavo   Condition Near fine

The text of the Copy Book reproduced in full and collated with the major printed versions and the holograph drafts. Cloth in price-clipped dustjacket somewhat darkened at spine.

Price £28.00


317pp


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WB1957

Percy Bysshe Shelley (translator)

Euripedes’ The Cyclops: A Satyric Drama


Published by Liverpool UP 1908

Edition 1st thus

Condition Very good

Published for performance by students at Liverpool University. Text pages virtually mint, uncut, sewn with ribbon into considerably larger wrappers now heavily darkened. Some loss to ribbon but binding unaffected.

Price £18.00


44pp


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Percy Bysshe Shelley (translator)

Plato’s Banquet

Ed. Roger Ingpen

Published by Privately 1931

Edition 1st such   Limitation 100

Condition Very good

Including Shelley’s A Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks Relative to the Subject of Love and A Preface to The Banquet revised & enlarged by Roger Ingpen from MSS in the possession of Sir John C. R. Shelley-Rolls, Bart. Printed at the Curwen Press. Internally fine but original cloth considerably rubbed although sound and with gilt spine lettering still bright. Inscription on fly.

Price £50.00


116pp


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WB1927

 

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