Shelley, Mary and Percy Bysshe
Collection of 18 volumes
£882
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Miscellaneous Poems. London: William Benbow, 1826. First pirate edition, 12mo, [ii]. 144, contemporary half calf;
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical works, edited by Mrs Shelley. London: E. Moxon, 1839. First collected edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, original blindstamped red cloth, half-titles, rubbed;
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, edited by Mrs Shelley. London: E. Moxon, 1840, First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blindstamped red cloth, spines neatly repaired;
[Shelley, Mary & others]. Lives of the most eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal. London: Longman [&c], 1835-7, First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles, original brown blindstamped cloth, titles spotted;
[Shelley, Mary & others]. Another copy. London, 1835-37, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn;
Shelley, Mary. Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France. London: Longman [&c.], 1836-39, 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, Roger Senhouse bookplates;
Shelley, Mary. Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'. Hartford: Silus Andrus & Son, 1846. 8vo, original cloth, very spotted, worn;
[Mount Cashell, Lady] "Mason, Mrs". Advice to Young Mothers on the Physical Education of Children. London, 1823, 12mo, contemporary half calf, dampstained, rubbed [Mary Wollstonecraft was governess in Ireland to Lady Mount Cashell];
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Letters to Elizabeth Hitchener, now first published. 1908. 8vo, original cloth
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.