Kl.2.30
Posthumous poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
London : Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 1824.
xi, [3], 415, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Edited by Mary Shelley.
Issue with the advertisement and errata leaf ([2] pp. following table of contents).
Printer statement from title page verso and colophon: London : Printed by C. H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden Square.
Publication date follows imprint place on title page.
Wise, T. J. Ashley lib., v. 5, p. 88
Armorial bookplate of Chandos Leigh (1791-1850), a schoool friend of Lord Byron and close to Leigh Hunt and Mary Shelley.
From the library at Stoneleigh Abbey where it remained until the sale of the library in October 1981.
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.
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.
Reynell, Carew Henry, ? - -1859 printer.
Leigh, Chandos, 1791 - 1850 former owner.
J. and H. L. Hunt (Firm) publisher.
Stoneleigh Abbey former owner.
England London.
B50068