Shelley, a Poem: with other Writings relating to Shelley, by the late James Thomson ('B. V.'): to which is added an Essay on The Poems of William Blake, by the same Author

[London]: Printed for Private Circulation by Charles Whittingham and Co., 1884. Limited edition of 190 copies, 160 on toned paper (as here), and 30 on 'Whatman's had-made paper', each numbered and signed by the editor Bertram Dobell. xii, 128pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Rubbed, wear to spine panel, lightly marked. Very occasional light spotting. The sole edition, posthumously published for private circulation, of poet and satirist James Thomson's (1834-1882) elegy to Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792- 1822). The editor, bookseller and literary scholar Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), elects to include several of Thomson's essays and notes on Shelley, including his review of Moxon's cheap edition of Shelley's poems (1870), as well as a 'Review of the Life of Shelley' (reprinted from the English Men of Letters Series, 1878) by poet and literary critic John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), and select correspondence between Thomson and William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919), founding member of the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood and editor of the aforementioned Moxon edition of Shelley (which he revised in 1878 due to wide-spread criticism, not least from Thomson himself). . First edition. 8vo.