Shelfmark
Ua.2
Author
Title
A Shelley library : a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / collected by Thomas James Wise.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for private circulation only, 1924.
Physical description
xvii, 164, [2] p. : front. (port.) facsims. ; 27 cm.
Note
Some of plates printed on both sides.
Note
"Of this book one hundred and sixty copies only have been printed upon antique paper."--P. [v].
Note
This ed. also includes copies printed on hand-made paper.
Note
Introduction signed: Roger Ingpen.
Note
Device on recto of last leaf inscribed: "The Ashley library. Privately printed 1924."
Note
"With seven or eight exceptions, every item included ... has already been described in the full catalogue of the Ashley Library. But in that work all are not to be found together. Certain books ... documents ... and letters ... had of necessity to be entered under the names of their respective authors. I have found satisfaction in gathering them all into one complete and distinctive group."--Pref., p. vii.
Copy-specific note
Reference collection
Subject
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792 - 1822 Bibliography.
Subject
Shelley, Harriet Westbrook, ? - d. 1816 Bibliography.
Subject
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797 - 1851 Bibliography.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B47718