Research Catalog

Title

History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland : with letters descriptive of a sail around the Lake of Geneva, and of the glaciers of Chamouni / by Percy B. Shelley.

Author

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Publication

London : Published by J. Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, 1829.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
• Brooks, John
• Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859

Description

vi, [2], 183, [1] pages; 18 cm (8vo)

Subject

• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Travel > Europe
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Travel > Europe
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
• Women authors, English > 19th century > Diaries
• Europe > Description and travel

Note

• A reissue of the unsold sheets of the first issue of 1817 with a new title-page attributing authorship to Percy Bysshe Shelley (cf. Wise).
• Consists of a journal (pages 1-81) and two letters by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and two letters and a poem, "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni," by Percy Bysshe Shelley (cf. Ingpen, R., The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1909, volume 2, pages 576-577).
• Printer's imprint: "Reynell, Printer, 45, Broad-street, Golden-square."
• Signatures: [A]⁴(±[A]1) B-M⁸ N⁴.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Wise, T. J. Shelley Library

Call Number

Pforz (Shelley, M. History of a six weeks' tour. 1829. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)

OCLC

• 2803815
• NYPG02-B2699

Author

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Title

History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland : with letters descriptive of a sail around the Lake of Geneva, and of the glaciers of Chamouni / by Percy B. Shelley.

Publisher

London : Published by J. Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, 1829.

Edition

[First edition, second issue].

Indexed In:

Wise, T. J. Shelley Library, p. 47

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Original buff paper boards, tan paper spine, printed paper spine label reads: "SIX WEEKS' / TOUR. / BY / P. B. SHELLEY. / 5s."; housed in an archival box. -- Armorial bookplate of Joseph Tasker, Middleton Hall, Essex to front pastedown; bookplate of H. Buxton Forman to front free endpaper. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at part two of the Buxton Forman sale, Anderson galleries, April 1920, lot 937.

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Added Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Brooks, John, publisher.

Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859, printer.

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner.

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

Tasker, Joseph, former owner.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Shelley, M. History of a six weeks' tour. 1829. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)