Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion etc.

by Percy B. Shelley

$50,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 25, 1 . 1 vols. 4to. Full navy morocco with gilt spine. Trimmed to 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, but still with very wide margins, light spotting throughout, very good. Ashley V, pp. 78-79; Granniss 66-68; Grolier, English 73; Hayward 229; Wise, Shelley, pp. 59-60. Item #377539 Shelley's moving elegy on the death of John Keats, in ringing Spenserian stazas, is prefaced by a bitter attack upon the

• Binding: Leather

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