Research Catalog

Title

Posthumous poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Publication

London, 1824 : Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
• Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859
• J. and H.L. Hunt (Firm), publisher.

Description

xi, [2], 415, [1] pages; 23 cm

Note

• Edited and with a preface by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
• Printer's imprint: "London: Printed by C. H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden Square."
• Epigraph: In nobil sangue vita umile e questa, / Ed in alto intelletto un puro core; / Frutto senile in sui giovenil fiore, / E in aspetto pensoso anima lieta" -- Petrarca.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Forman, H. Buxton. The Shelley Library
• Wise, Thomas J. A Shelley Library

Call Number

*Pforz 559L 08

LCCN

44014966

OCLC

1940395

Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Title

Posthumous poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Publisher

London, 1824 : Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.

Indexed In:

Forman, H. Buxton. The Shelley Library, 73

Wise, Thomas J. A Shelley Library, page 70

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy 1: *Pforz 559L 08: With the manuscript publishing account, in an unknown hand, of John and Henry L. Hunt for the production of Posthumous Poems tipped in at front (S'ANA 0895). -- Lacking the errata leaf. -- Brown levant morocco, spine gilt.

Pforzheimer copy 2: Lacking the errata leaf. -- Full brown levant morocco by Tout, gilt tooled spine in compartments, gilt lined panels and inside borders, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. -- With the bookplates of Thomas Jefferson McKee and Winston H. Hagen (acquired by Hagen January 21, 1903 through George D. Smith). Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the Hagen sale, Anderson Galleries, May 1918, lot 1137.

Pforzheimer copy 3: Formerly laid in, now removed to the manuscript files, was an autograph letter by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Bryan Waller Procter (MWS 0109). -- With the errata leaf bound at the end, a list of Shelley's previously published works on the verso; followed by a leaf of the publisher's advertisements. -- A few contemporary penciled annotations throughout. -- Pages assembled out of order, as follows: vi, 149-156, vii-vii, xi, [1], [ix]-x, [1]-148, 157-415, [1] pages, (plus errata and advertisement leaves). -- Original drab paper boards, printed paper spine label reads: "Price 15s. boards."; housed in a blue morocco case with spine label and gilt spine titling.

Pforzheimer copy 4: Lacking the errata leaf. -- With the bookplate of Alfred Nathan. -- Dark red straight-grain morocco, gilt spine decorations and titling; covers detached.

Pforzheimer copy 5: Written out in ink on the front free endpaper, in an unknown hand, is the anonymous "Sonnet to Percy Bysshe Shelley" [here untitled] from the 20 September 1823 issue of The Literary Examiner (S'ANA 0897); with the note: "I think C.C.C." [i.e., Charles Cowden Clarke]; begins, "Hast thou from earth then really passed away..." -- Lacking the errata leaf. -- Original drab paper boards, printed paper spine label reads: "Price 15s. boards."; housed in a gray cloth jacket, within a red straight-grain morocco pull-off case. -- Acquired by the Pforzheimer Library through Hamill & Barker, July 19, 1972.

Pforzheimer copy 6: Excerpts from reviews of Shelley, written in contemporary hand(s) (S'ANA 0896) on front and rear binder's leaves. -- Lacking the errata leaf. -- Brown morocco, spines gilt.

Pforzheimer copy 7: Lacking the errata leaf. -- Original drab paper boards, rebacked, printed paper spine label reads: "Price 14s. boards." -- In a blue cloth chemise within a quarter blue morocco slipcase, gilt titling. -- No provenance information.

Berg Coll Shelley, P. 1824 c. 1: Lacking the errata leaf. -- Contemporary ink ownership signature of "Robert C. C. L." to front pastedown. -- Contemporary pencil marginalia to front and rear free endpapers. -- Original drab paper boards, printed paper spine label (label mutilated), front cover repaired; housed in a pale-red cloth case, gilt title. -- From the library of Owen D. Young.

Berg Coll Shelley, P. 1824 c. 2: Lacking the errata leaf. -- Full blue levant morocco by Root & Son, upper and lower covers tooled in gilt with floral corner pieces within double fillet border, compartmented spine tooled in gilt with floral decorations, title stamped in gilt, double gilt rule to cover edges, inner gilt dentelles, orange endpapers, top edge gilt. -- Bookseller's stamp of Walter T. Spencer, London to verso of front free endpaper. -- With the bookplate of Walter Thomas Wallace to front pastedown. -- From the library of William T. H. Howe.

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Added Author

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, editor.

J. and H.L. Hunt (Firm), publisher.

Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859, printer.

Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877.

Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898, annotator.

Hagen, Winston H. (Winston Henry), 1859-1918, former owner.

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), 1874-1939, former owner.

McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, former owner.

Nathan, Alfred, 1866-1933, former owner.

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

Root & Son, binder.

Smith, George D. (George Dallas), 1870-1920, bookseller.

Spencer, Walter T. (Walter Thomas), bookseller.

Tout, Samuel, active 1867-1869, binder.

Wallace, Walter Thomas, former owner.

Young, Owen D., 1874-1962, former owner.

Research Call Number

*Pforz 559L 08

Pforz (Shelley, P. Posthumous poems. 1824. 1st ed. London)

Berg Coll Shelley, P. 1824