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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Poetical Works. London: Edward Moxon, 1839.
4 volumes, 8vo (171 x 108 mm). Half-titles, imprint leaves at end of vol. I and III, 1 pp. publisher’s ad at end of vol. IV; engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. I (faint offsetting from plate to title-page) 20th-century dark blue calf gilt, spine in 6 compartments, 2 leather lettering-pieces gilt in 2, others completely gilt, top edges gilt, dentelles, (spines slightly sunned, a few corners lightly rubbed, few small spots of rubbing to some spines). Provenance: Books Inc. (booksellers’ ticket).
FIRST EDITION of Shelley’s works edited and compiled by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, which she dedicated to their son Percy Florence Shelley.