“IT IS AN ISLE UNDER IONIAN SKIES, BEAUTIFUL AS A WRECK OF PARADISE…”
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poems. London: MacMillan, 1900. 12mo, contemporary full olive morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers with taupe, red and black onlays, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, gilt dentelles with red and taupe onlays, all edges gilt. $3200.
Lovely volume of Shelley’s poems, in a delicately beautiful floral binding by Ramage.
"Some of the loveliest lyrics in English, together with longer poems unsurpassed in beauty and grandeur, came from the pen of this visionary, half-unearthly man… The dominant impression of his work is that of pure and ineffable beauty" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 559). From the Golden Treasury Series.
Spine evenly toned. An attractive copy, handsomely bound.