Shelley, Mary
A collection of works
£3,750
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Lodore. Brussels: A.D. Wahlen, 1835. 8vo, half-title, original purple cloth gilt, bookplate, endpapers renewed; [Idem] Rambles in Germany and Italy. London: Edward Moxon, 1844. 2 volumes, 8vo, lacking half-titles, modern green marbled boards, faint stamps of Belfast Library; [Idem] The fortunes of Perkin Warbeck. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher's boards, browned, boards chipped, slight dampstaining; and a later edition; [Idem] The Swiss Peasant, pp.416-438 in The Tale Book, volume 1 Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1834. 8vo; [Idem] Transformation, pp.32-51 in The Tale Book, volume 1 Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1834. 8vo; uniform black half calf gilt; [Idem] Euphrasia, pp.243-26 in Leaflets of Memory, 1847. 8vo, contemporary decorative calf gilt; [Idem] - Peake, Richard Brinsley Frankenstein. A Romantic Drama, in three acts. Playbill, no.431 of Dicks' Standard Plays; Marshall, Mrs Julian The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1889. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red quarter calf, worn; Church, Richard Mary Shelley. London: Gerald Howe Ltd, 1928. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; and two later editions of Frankenstein; Shelley, Mary Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal. London, 1835, [part of The Cabinet of Biography], 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary diced calf gilt, morocco labels; [Roscoe, W., editor] The Pledge. London: R.A. Charlton, [n.d.], with 'Prosperine' contribution by Mary Shelley, embossed calf, rubbed, hinges weak (18)
Footnote
Provenance: From the Library of the Late William St Clair