SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (edited by Mrs. Shelley). ESSAYS, LETTERS FROM ABROAD, TRANSLATIONS AND FRAGMENTS. Two volume set, beautifully bound in full plum calf. Published by Edward Moxon, London. 1852. "A New Edition", hb leather, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 259; viii, 293. Spines in compartments, with raised bands, and gilt ornamentation, t.e.g, marbled endpapers. Binding by McNames of Cambridge, England. With the engraved bookplate of George Higginson, Jr. on each front pastedown. The bookplate is by Spencely of Boston, and is dated 1899. It shows an oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln over a shelf of books. (Possibly the George Higginson, Jr., mentioned in "The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of England Ancestors", by Louise Brownell Clarke [1903].) This is "A New Edition" of this work, first published 12 years earlier (1840 - Shelley died in 1822). The editor is, of course, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the poet's second wife, and famous in her own
right as the author of "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus". She has also contributed a 17 page Introduction. This lovely little set shows slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities of the boards and very minor wear to the crown and foot of the spines. The binding by McNames, of Cambridge, England, is finely done. The hinges and joints are tight, although the stitching is a bit stressed on both volumes. Otherwise, the set is in very good condition.

Price: $200US/ $300Cdn          #28057
 
 
 

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