Shelley memorials: from authentic sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. With, now first printed, an essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
by SHELLEY, Lady [Jane]. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
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About This Item
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. x, [2], 290, [2], 35pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and bumped, spine dulled. Occasional light spotting. The third edition of a memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with the addition of a new preface by the editor, Shelley's daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Shelley. The book was published in 1859 in response to Thomas Jefferson Hogg's unreliable 1858 biography of the celebrated poet. . Third edition. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ28906
- Title
- Shelley memorials: from authentic sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. With, now first printed, an essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author
- SHELLEY, Lady [Jane]. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry S. King & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1875
- Size
- 8vo
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Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Wareham, Dorset
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