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.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Reynell, Carew Henry, ? - -1859 printer.
Added entry--name
Leigh, Chandos, 1791 - 1850 former owner.
Added entry--name
J. and H. L. Hunt (Firm) publisher.
Added entry--name
Stoneleigh Abbey former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B50068