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Ring Binder. Condition: with no dust jacket. No Dust Jacket. Soiled Wrappers; Ronald Reagan & Joan Leslieon cover. stamped price on title page. soiled fore edges.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 284 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in marbled paper-covered boards, red calf label gilt to spine with title, all edges marbled. 308pp. Printed London, Davison, Simmons and Co., Whitefriars. A total of seventeen tissue-guarded full page illustrations from engravings are included in this annual literary anthology: a title page with neoclassical wreath after Henri Corbould, frontispiece illustration ,"The Adieu" opposite second illustrated title page picturing medallion of British King William IV. (Letterpress title page follows). **CONDITION: Very Good generally, but "a tad musty." Hinges and joint in order. Spine moderately darkened with a small handwritten label in old ink near foot, possibly from a personal library, as there are also ghosts of an inch wide printed label to both ffep. and table of contents page. Pages are bright, plates crisp. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851) has four attributed contributions to this literary annual. These include the first appearance of two short stories "by the Author of Frankenstein." (Lyles) Additionally, two sets of "stanzas" are anonymous but attributed to her by scholars (Sunstein , Bennet). The poems begin "To love in solitude and mystery." (p. 28) and "I must forget thy dark eyes' love-frought gaze." (p. 52). In Shelley's first short story, "The Brother and Sister. An Italian Story," (p. 105) a Sienese family of note comes under acute financial pressure from political rivals, leading to the banishment of a young man. His younger sister is left behind, made ward of the usurpers but events conspire to bring the two rival houses back into alignment in this romantic tale. Birmingham, England Artist ELIZA SHARPE (1796-1874) contributes the painting after which the title character "Flora" is seen in the woods with her maid contemplating her escape. Eliza Sharpe, the second of four artistic daughters of an engraver, William Sharpe, and his wife, worked a lengthy career in London as a portraitist and miniaturist, and was secty. of The "Old" Water-Colour Society after 1829. Her elder sister Louisa (1798-1843) also contributed to these pages. (DNB) The second Mary Shelley story, "The Invisible Girl" is a truly gothic tale with a ghostly element. A fishing boat flounders off the Welsh coast, but is guided to safety by a mysterious light coming from a seemingly abandoned stone tower. Ghosts of the past play a role in this gripping tale. Other notable artistic contributions were by J.M.W. Turner, who's view of "Erhenbreitstein" is shown. REF: W. Lyles Mary Shelley, An Annotated Bibliography,(1975) "The Brother and Sister" and "The Invisible Girl (D1l and D1m). Sunstein and Bennet in "Newly Uncovered Letters and Poems by M.W. Shelley, in the Keats-Shelley Journal 46 (1997). Scarce. (AMJ). Eliza Sharpe, Louisa Sharpe, J.M.W. Turner, Henri Corbould; C. Stanfield et al (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 284 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.70 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.