Description

FIRST EDITION of Shelley's longest and most spiritually revolutionary work. xxxii, 270 pp., COMPLETE WITH THE DEDICATION LEAF, THE FLY-TITLE (with a quotation from Pindar in the original Greek), AND THE ERRATA LEAF. This copy is from the COLLECTION OF ROBERT HOE, the greatest of all American book collectors, with his small, finely gilt leather bookplate on front pastedown (his auction catalogue, volume IV, part 2, lot 2917). TEXT CORRECTED (in accordance with the errata leaf) IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Printed on fine wove paper. Large 8vo. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND (surely for Hoe) IN FULL HAVANA MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT BY RIVIERE (signed). Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Traces of wear to joints, else FINE AND BRIGHT. For an interesting account of the publication of this volume, see Buxton Forman's Shelley Library, pp. 71-87. An outstanding copy of an important book.