The Cenci. A Tragedy in Five Acts
London: C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street, 1821. Second edition, but the first to appear in... Read More about The Cenci. A Tragedy in Five Acts
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London: C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street, 1821. Second edition, but the first to appear in... Read More about The Cenci. A Tragedy in Five Acts
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London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition. Read More about The Angler in Wales, Or Days and Nights of Sportsmen
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London: John Macrone, 3, St. James Square; sold By Simpkin and Marshall, 1839. Turner, J.M. W. First edition with the Turner plates. TURNER PLATES. Read More about The Epicurean, a Tale … and Alciphron, a Poem
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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1885. Édition de Grand Luxe, No. 292 of 500 copies, on Imperial Japanese paper, signed by the Art Director. Read More about Lalla Rookh. An Oriental Romance
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Part of a longer poem written in probably after 1807 and published in The New Monthly Magazine in 1835 with Lord Byron's Reply (a doubtful attribution). Dr. Henry Moyes (1750-1807) was blind from small pox in infancy. "As his blindness precluded Moyes from practising medicine, he became, in Edinburgh, a...... Read More about Manuscript Poem: "A Petition from the Ladies of Edinburgh to Dr. Moyes." Twelve lines....
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New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First edition, with half-title. First Edition. Students all over the world know of the title poem, and many know others as well: "The Conqueror Worm", "Eulalie", "Leonore" "To Helen", etc. "The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time..... Read More about The Raven and Other Poems
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New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First editions of both titles. Raven with half title, "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books", name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; Tales, third printing with three-line copyright. Students all over the world know of the title poem, and many..... Read More about The Raven and Other Poems [and:] Tales
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New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850-56. FIRST EDITIONS, second printings of vols. 1-3, vols. 1-3 in binding E (signed by Geo. W. Alexander); first edition of vol. 4 in a binding not identified in BAL; advertisements in vols. 1 and 4 as called for. “Poe’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Clemm, persuaded Griswold..... Read More about The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
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London: printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davis, 1811. Second edition. “Radcliffe’s final Gothic novel consciously competes with the horrific Gothic of Lewis and the villain-centered action of THE MONK (1796)... In her movement from terror to horror fiction in THE ITALIAN, Radcliffe sounded a new octave on the Gothic..... Read More about The Italian; or, The Confessionial of the Black Penitents. A Romance
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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman, 1859. First edition. Read More about Recollections
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London: Printed for Private Distribution, 1880. No. 10 of 50 copies for American (of an issue of 100). Read More about The Pedigree of Percy Bysshe Shelley now First Given from the Records of the College of Arms
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Boston: The Bibliophile Society. Printed for Members Only, 1907. Onw of 470 copies. Letters between Mary Shelley and the unlucky John Howard Payne, who doted on her; the letters reveal her desire to use Payne to establish a relationship with Washington Irving. Read More about The Romance of Mary W. Shelley, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving. Introduction by Henry H....
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London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1889. First Edition. Read More about The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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London: Edward Moxon, 1840. First edition. Inscribed by Mary Shelley in December 1839. Contains the first printing of Shelley's "The Defence of Poetry" and also his translations from the classics (including Plato's “Symposium,” “Ion,” and fragments from “The Republic”) and 67 letters. “The Defence of Poetry” was edited by John..... Read More about Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments. Edited by Mrs. Shelley
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New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers No. 82 Cliff-Street, 1837. First American edition, and first one-volume edition (published the same year as the English edition, which was published in three volumes). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MARY SHELLEY'S FALKNER. Read More about Falkner. A Novel, by the Author of "Frankenstein," "The Last Man," &c....
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London: William Benbow, 1826. 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. But for 1824's Posthumous Poems, this is the first selected poems of Shelley. This version reprints..... Read More about Miscellaneous Poems
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London: Printed and Published by W. Clark, 1821. First published edition, thin paper copy. Though a piracy by William Clark – with the help of book pirate Thomas Moses, whose monogram appears in black letter below the imprint on the penultimate leaf – the is the first published edition of..... Read More about Queen Mab
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New York: Printed by William Baldwin and Co. corner of Chatham Street, 1821. "First American Edition", variant with an engraved title-page, and with "A Philosophical Poem” in the title, printed in Old English type; actually Second Unauthorized edition. This edition is purported to be New York imprint, but has since..... Read More about Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem
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London: Printed for private circulation [for the Shelley Society], 1888. One of three copies on vellum, signed by the printers, Richard Clay & Sons. Read More about Shelley's Philosophy of Love
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New York: [For Carl Pforzheimer and His Friends by the Pynson Press], 1926. One of 155 numbered copies, this being number 131. Scarce. Read More about Letters of Elizabeth Hitchener to Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Paris: Emile Paul Frères, [1924]. First illustrated edition, one of 1600 copies, this being no. 1107, on Vélin de Rives. Maurois’ fine interpretation of Shelley. Read More about Ariel ou la Vie de Shelley
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New York: Bangs & Co, 24-28 May 1897. Fine Collection of Shelley and Shelleyana. “Mr. Frederickson, about 20 years ago conceived the idea of having the larger portion of his buying concentrated on Shelley. We say…that this Shelley library is the most remarkable ever collected in this country” (Preface signed..... Read More about Catalogue of the Library of the late Charles W. Frederickson. A Carefully Selected and Valuable...
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New York: Bangs & Co, 24-28 May 1897. First edition. Fine Collection of Shelley and Shelleyana. “Mr. Frederickson, about 20 years ago conceived the idea of having the larger portion of his buying concentrated on Shelley. We say…that this Shelley library is the most remarkable ever collected in this country”..... Read More about Catalogue of the Library of the late Charles W. Frederickson. A Carefully Selected and Valuable...
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[N.p: n.d,. ca. 1880s]. Signed "C.E. Thompson" on the first blank, and extensively annotated throughout, with allusions to Vergil and Milton, citations in Greek, and a transcription of part of Tennyson’s In Memoriam. Read More about Adonais
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London: Printed for the Reed Pale Press by the Chiswick Press, 1935. One of 250 copies, this being number 122 on hand-made paper. Read More about Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
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San Francisco: Printed for Williams Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, 1922. No. 61 of 150 copies printed, with compliments card from Clark laid in. Beautiful Nash production and great homage to the poet. Issued with ADONAIS. Issue with a facsimile of the Pisa edition of 1821, in blue..... Read More about Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
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