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Shelfmark

Kl.2.30

Author

Title

Posthumous poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 1824.

Physical description

xi, [3], 415, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Note

Edited by Mary Shelley.

Note

Issue with the advertisement and errata leaf ([2] pp. following table of contents).

Note

Printer statement from title page verso and colophon: London : Printed by C. H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden Square.

Note

Publication date follows imprint place on title page.

Citation/references note

Wise, T. J. Ashley lib., v. 5, p. 88

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of Chandos Leigh (1791-1850), a schoool friend of Lord Byron and close to Leigh Hunt and Mary Shelley.

Provenance

From the library at Stoneleigh Abbey where it remained until the sale of the library in October 1981.

Provenance

Annotated, mostly with side- and underlinings in pencil and with several alternative readings of translations (particularly Faust) in blank ink; possibly in two hands, one of them possibly Chandos Leigh.

Binding

Contemporary 19th century tan grained calf; blind-tooled borders with edges rolled in gilt; rebacked with five raised bands, possibly by H. T. Cooke of Warwick who was connected with the Leigh family.

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Stoneleigh Abbey former owner.

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England London.

Identifier

B50068
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