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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Poetical Works. London: Edward Moxon, 1839.
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Poetical Works. London: Edward Moxon, 1839.
4 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles; engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. I. 20th-century crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, turn-ins gilt, stamp-signed by G. P. Putnam’s for the Knickerbocker Press (spines slightly sunned, a few corners lightly bumped). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Shelley's works edited and compiled by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, which she dedicated to their son Percy Florence Shelley.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York