Percy Bysshe Shelley; H Buxton Forman; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Given from His Own Editions and Other Authentic Sources

London , Reeves & Turner , 1892. Leather. A lovely complete two volume collection of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetical works, with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. A complete two volume set of the third Edition of this work, with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Bookplate of De Rothschild with an Ascott House, Near Wing in Buckinghamshire (bought by Mayer De Rothschild in 1873) stating case C shelf 4. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley are given from his own editions and other authentic sources, collated with many manuscripts and with all editions of authority. These volumes also has his prefaces and notes, his poetical translations and fragments and an appendix. The volumes are edited by H Buxton Forman.Both volumes have a frontispiece. The first volume contains a preface, critical notes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and some of the poems included in this volume are Alastor and Mont Blanc. The second volume contains Julian and Maddalo and categorises Shelley's poems by year. From the Ascott House library, owned by the de Rothschild family. The library was created following the conversion of the billiards room in 1936 and was predominantly filled with books collected by Anthony de Rothschild. In full calf binding. Externally, smart with some fading to the spines. There is a bookplate with the initials LR to the front pastedowns of both volumes. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: none. Near Fine .

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