Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited Mrs (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Spine has a white streak on the author/title and is slightly faded. ; Volume One only, out of Two.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Early printing. Originally issued by Moxon in 1839. This set has significant defects. 3 individual vols. Duodecimo, 7 2/3" tall, vol. 1: xvii + 376 pages; vol. 2: viii + 432 pages; vol. 3: viii + 386 pages, full decorative calf with raised bands and panels with maroon and black spine title labels; marbled endpapers and fore-edges. This is a good plus, solid, clean, set overall, internally very good, paper lightly yellowed, internal binding tight, BUT with hinges cracked and one each broken on vol. 1 and 2, with a cover loose, rubbing to all corners, leather fraying and chipping at the back strip, title labels missing from vol. 3. This set is well worth binding restoration and price accordingly.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4 volumes bound in attractive three quarters leather. A lovely 19th century binding with marbled paper over boards and marbled endpapers. Spines and corners in brown leather, with raised cords, orange/brown leather title label in one panel, black leather volume number label in lower panel (missing from one of the volumes). Gold decorations on the spines as well. Some rubbing and fading, but all boards firmly attached and all hinges strong. Foeredges dyed with marbled pattern as well -- this was as nice a binding as you might hope to see in 1867. Title pages all dated 1867. Frontispiece engraving in volume 1 with tissue guard. Volume 1 has 431 pages. Volume 2 has 345 pages. Volume 3 has 367 pages. Volume 4 has 378 pages. Nice and clean, page edges crisp and squared. Mild, normal, toning from age. Each volume measures 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Each volume has a neatly written ownership name at the front. Copyright pages are dated 1855 by Little, Brown, and Co., so this edition evidently indicated a change of ownership of the printing rights between prosperous Boston publishers. Some extra shipping will be necessary for this 4 volume set. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good HCs, no DJs. Half bound in natural calf leather with Spanish pattern (?) marbled paper over boards, gilt overlaid veins on covers; pseudo raised bands on spine with extra gilt stamped floral and vine designs in compartments and with gilt stamped titles on red and brown spine panels; all edges marbled in Spanish pattern; end papers match cover marbling. Bright, clean, square covers and spines; very slight edge rubbing with boards just exposed at volume 1 front cover lower fore corner and at rear cover upper fore corner; leather remains supple; tightly bound; owner bookplate on each front pastedown; bright, clean interiors. A very handsome set. Small 8vo, 1566 total pp (xlv, 431, 345, 367, 378).

Leather. Condition: Very Good Set. Engravings (illustrator). 16mo, Gilt lettered and decorated covers and spines. All edges gilt. Binding signed by Zaehnsdorf Bindery. Nice little set. Gilt inner dentelle. Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy. His other major works include long, visionary poems such as Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs, the unfinished work The Triumph of Life; and the visionary verse dramas The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820). Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre- Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, W. B. Yeats, Karl Marx, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience was apparently influenced by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action. Signed by Author(s).