SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.

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Letters to J. H. Leigh Hunt. First edition, one of a stated limitation of 30 copies, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title by the bibliographer, editor, and notorious forger, "To Henry Norman, With Kindest Regards from Thos. J. Wise. 7/iv/95".Henry Norman (1858-1939) was a Liberal politician and journalist, who worked for a time at the Pall Mall Gazette under the editorship of W. T. Stead. He was on the staff of the Daily Chronicle from 1892, becoming assistant and literary editor in the year of this presentation. He was knighted in 1906 and made a baronet in 1915. As a journalist, he is remembered for his revelations on the truth behind the Dreyfus affair.

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