Shelfmark
Kl.4.39
Author
Title
Prometheus unbound : a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street, 1820. (London : Marchant, printer)
Physical description
xv, [4], 20-222, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Note
Printer statement from verso of half-title and final leaf.
Note
Publisher's catalogue on final leaf.
Note
Latin quotation on t.p., following the author statement.
Note
First edition, second issue (i.e. with cancel "contents" leaf with corrected spelling of the word "miscellaneous")
Formatted contents note
Contents: Preface -- Prometheus unbound -- Miscellaneous poems: The sensitive plant -- A vision of the sea -- Ode to heaven -- An exhortation -- Ode to the west wind -- An ode, written October, 1819, before the Spaniards had recovered their liberty -- The cloud -- To a skylark -- Ode to liberty.
Citation/references note
Wise, T. J. Ashley lib., vol. 5, p. 73
Provenance
Presented by Colin Baillieu.
Binding
Late 19th or early 20th century brown goatskin; border of two gilt fillets; single gilt fillet border in spine compartments; five raised bands; gilt lettered spine; elaborate gold tooling on turn-ins; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting half-title and final leaf.
Copy-specific note
Booksellers' annotations in pencil.
Subject
English poetry 19th century.
Added entry--name
Marchant, W. printer.
Added entry--name
C. and J. Ollier publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B43412