Miscellaneous Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

$2,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of “Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems” published the same year. ii title, contents leaf , 144pp., headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1, 1, and C -D, 2E , Z, 2A-2B, U-Y, 2F , 2H , all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. . Bound in Twentieth Century brown levant, elaborately gilt with

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