“THE AGE WOULD SEIZE UPON SHELLEY”

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. London, 1824.

First edition, first issue, edited and with a preface by Mary Shelley, containing the first publication of much of Shelley's work, handsomely bound by Tout & Sons. One of fewer than 500 copies printed and fewer than 300 actually sold before Mary Shelley acquiesced to Shelley's father's demands to publish nothing more about his son during his own lifetime. $4200.

"O, THAT THE WISE FROM THEIR BRIGHT MINDS WOULD KINDLE SUCH LAMPS WITHIN THE DOME OF THIS DIM WORLD"

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound. London, 1820.

First edition, second issue, handsomely bound in full crushed morocco-gilt by Riviere & Son. An unusually tall, wide-margined copy. $4200.

SHELLEY’S QUEEN MAB, FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, WITH RARE DEDICATION TO HARRIET

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. London, 1821.

First published edition, with the rare usually-absent dedication to his first wife, Harriet. A beautiful copy. $4000.

MARY SHELLEY’S IMPORTANT 1839 EDITION OF SHELLEY’S POETICAL WORKS, IN SCARCE ORIGINAL CLOTH

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works. London, 1839. Four volumes.

First edition of Mary Shelley’s important edition of her husband’s poetical works, in scarce original cloth. $3000.

“TO THE LAST HE WAS THE ENCHANTED CHILD”

(SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe) THOMPSON, Francis. Shelley. Portland, Maine, 1912.

Limited Mosher edition, one of 900 copies, of poet Francis Thompson's renowned posthumous essay on Percy Shelley, an especially elegant copy bound in full crushed morocco. $450.