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Ariel: A Shelley Romance by [SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe]; MAUROIS, Andr�; D'Arcy, Ella (translator); Jacquier (illustrator) - 1925

Name: The Life and Work of John Ruskin: With portraits and other illustrations in two volumes (Two Volumes)
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Author: [RUSKIN, John]; COLLINGWOOD, W.G.

by [SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe]; MAUROIS, Andr�; D'Arcy, Ella (translator); Jacquier (illustrator)

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Ariel: A Shelley Romance

by [SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe]; MAUROIS, Andr�; D'Arcy, Ella (translator); Jacquier (illustrator)

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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1925. Very Good. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 310, [2 catalogue] + colour frontis and 7 illustrations. Quarter black cloth with marbled boards, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Blue stain to top edge (faded), others untrimmed. Pushing and wear to spine ends, corners and top edge. Some foxing, else, clean and tidy, with the plates nice and bright. Very good. A pleasing copy of an attractive edition. Maurois' fictionalised Jazz Age biography of Shelley, translated from the French by short story writer and Yellow Book editor, Ella D'Arcy. One of the 'romance biographies' that followed the success of Stratchey's Eminent Victorians (1918), Maurois (through D'Arcy) renders Shelley as 'a demigod with flashing eyes, a shirt-collar open on a delicate throat, and hair as fine as spun silk,' while his second wife, author of Frankenstein is 'Mary of the nut-brown eyes [�] slim and true as a Toledo blade'. Ariel went on to be the first title published by Penguin Books.

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Publisher John Lane The Bodley Head
Place of Publication London
Date Published 1925

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London: Methuen & Co., 1893. Very Good. Second edition. 8vos, pp. [xvi], 244 + colour frontis and b/w plates; pp. [viii], 286 + fold-out facsimile manuscript frontis and b/w plates. Full tree calf, olive morocco labels, raised bands, spines tooled in gilt, gilt foliate borders, edges with gilt roll tool borders. Marbled edges and endpapers, blind turn-ins. Both vols. include an Appendix, comprising a Chronology, Bibliography and Catalogue. Both vols. spine ends worn and nicked, rubbed at joints and edges, joints cracked. Bookseller sticker to each rear pastedown. Edges and endpapers edges tobacco-darkened. Else, pleasingly clean and tight. An attractive copy of this standard biography of Ruskin. William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) was an author, artist and antiquary, who was a pupil and great supporter of Ruskin's, helping to memorialise him not just in print, but also via the Ruskin Museum in Coniston. His biography of Ruskin became a standard work: first published in 1893 (with a limited… Read More

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1974. Framed (510 x 390mm) b/w silver gelatin print (320 x 234mm) of Marchese Marconi and Principessa Elettra Marconi Giovanelli. The double half-length portrait captures them smiling, seated close together and facing the camera. Mount signed in (faded) pen by both women at foot of portrait: "Elettra Marconi/ Maria Cristina Marconi". Label lettered in black to reverse: "Marchese Marconi and Principessa Elettra (Giovanelli) Marconi/ Centenary of birth of Marconi/ 1974". Very Good. Maria Cristina Marconi (1900-1994) was the radio pioneer and Nobel prize winner's second wife, and Maria Elettra, their only daughter (1930-).