shelley percy bysshe lady (5 Ergebnisse)

(195 x 125). pp, x, (2), 290, (2 errata), 32 catalogue. Black and white frontispiece. Ex library with usual labels, stamps and marks. All edges uncut. Green and gilt cloth with blindstamped ruled edges to boards, call number to spine. Corners bumped and worn. Ex library but a sound copy.

First Edition, gilt cloth. Tall 8vo, c.pp300 uncut, with 24pp Smith Elder advts dated July 1859. Some slight wear, front free endpaper excised, overall a decent stout copy. Frontispiece [blank verso spotted] depicts Shelley's tomb. One of the most important contemporary accounts. This 1st Edition sold out rapidly : and a 2nd Edition was issued the same year. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Second edition, with a new Preface by the editor. Octavo. pp x, 290. Frontispiece engraving of Shelley's tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Period binding of three quarter red morocco with marbled paper boards, raised bands, elaborate gilt decorated spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. With the tipped-in errata slip. Green silk bookmark. The publication of this book was prompted by Lady Shelley's dislike of Hogg's biography of the poet. Gilt embossed bookplate on front pastedown. Slight rubbing to lower edges of covers. Four pages spotted. Very good indeed. A lovely copy.

Second edition with a new Preface by the editor. Octavo. pp xii, 290. [1] Errata. Extra-illustrated with frontispiece and thirty fine engraved plates, mostly portraits. Fine late nineteenth century binding by Root of full burgundy crushed morocco with raised bands, gilt floral decoration to spine and covers, gilt rules and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.Some rubbing to joints. Very good indeed in cloth slipcase. Attractive binding.

First edition, first printing. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full tan calf. Boards ruled in gilt. Five raised bands with gilt decorated compartments. Red morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of Shelley's tomb. An almost near-fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the boards and extremities and minor toning to the spine. The contents with the attractive red morocco and gilt ownership label of Margaret Louise Weyerhaeuser, as well as her paper bookplate, to the front pastedown, and the very occasional dot of foxing to a few page margins, are otherwise clean throughout. Jane Shelley's memoir of her father-in-law, produced in response to Thomas Jefferson Hogg's unreliable 1858 biography of Shelley, and containing the first publication of Shelley's Essay on Christianity as well as accounts of his association and correspondence with various other key Romantic figures. An attractive copy. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.