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Shelley

Title: Shelley / by Francis Thompson, with an introduction by the Rt. Honble. George Wyndham.
Author: Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907.
Publication: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Request in advance	Pforz (Shelleyana) (Thompson, F. Shelley. 1909. 2nd ed. New York)	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	NCC (Shelley) (Thompson, F. Shelley. 1909)	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	*Pforz B-L 14	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Description

91, [1], iv pages : illustration (facsimile); 20 cm

Subject

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Note

"Notes by W. M. [i.e. Wilfrid Meynell]"
Illustration: facsimile of a manuscript.
Colophon: "Letchworth: At the Arden Press."
4 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear.

Call Number

NCC (Shelley) (Thompson, F. Shelley. 1909)

OCLC

3887497

Author

Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907.

Title

Shelley / by Francis Thompson, with an introduction by the Rt. Honble. George Wyndham.

Imprint

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy 1: Stated second edition, printed on laid paper with watermark "Waldorf." -- Publisher's green buckram, with gilt-stamped border to upper cover and gilt spine titling. -- Provenance: Thomas B. Mosher (book-plate). -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at Parke Bernet galleries, October 11, 1949, through A. S. W. Rosenbach.

Pforzheimer copy 2: Stated fourth edition, printed on laid paper with windmill watermark. -- Publisher's green buckram, with gilt-stamped border to upper cover and gilt spine titling; housed in quarter green morocco clamshell case, gilt spine title "Shelley." -- Provenance: From the library of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), shelf mark Bs/Ls 40. On the front pastedown, Clemens has recorded the gift of the book from Elizabeth Wallace: "S. L. Clemens 1909, from Betsy." With holograph annotations by Clemens on pages 37, 53, 63, 68, totaling more than fifty words. -- Acquired by the Pforzheimer Collection at the sale of Nick Karanovich's Mark Twain Collection, Sotheby's New York, June 19, 2003, through Bart Auerbach.

Clemens wrote Wallace on September 22 1909 to thank her for the volume: "It's a lovely little book, and as rich in sumptuous imagery as is Shelley himself. The reading so moved and charmed me that I read some Shelley under the inspiration of it" (Mark Twain and the Happy Island, page 131).

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Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948.

Wyndham, George, 1863-1913.

Arden Press, printer.

Charles Scribner’s Sons, publisher.

Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923, former owner.

Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.

Karanovich, Nick, former owner.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, former owner.

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910, former owner.

Research Call Number

NCC (Shelley) (Thompson, F. Shelley. 1909)

Pforz (Shelleyana) (Thompson, F. Shelley. 1909. 2nd ed. New York)

*Pforz B-L 14

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