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Verlag: Oxford University Press 1961 -1970, London, 1961
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Various (illustrator). A smart collection of letters and documents from the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, relating to the poet Percy Blysshe Shelley and his contemporaries. The first 4 of 8 volumes of letters and documents from the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, relating to the poet Percy Blysshe Shelley and his contemporaries. An avid collector of rare books, American banker Pforzheimer took a special interest in the lives and works of Shelley and his circle. In 1987, the Pforzheimer Collection of Shelly and His Circle was donated to the New York Public Library, which included around 25,000 books, letters, manuscripts, and other related objects. A large portion of the New York-based Pforzheimer collection of English books and manuscripts was purchased for the University of Texas in 1986, in "what book dealers said was the largest sale of rare books ever made." Each volume containing a frontispiece and numerous illustrations and photographs of correspondence and documents. In publisher"s original cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Some spotting to the dust wrappers of vols 1 and 2 and light marking to all 4. Wear to the tail of the spine on vol 4. Light edgewear to the extremities of all 4. Cloth has gilt stamp to front board and title to the spine. Map of London illustrated on pastedowns and recto of endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.