EPIPSYCHIDION

London: published for the Shelley Society, 1887. A type fac-simile reprint of the original edition first published in 1821. With an Introduction by The Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, M.A. And a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Edited by Robert Alfred Potts. Pp. lxvi+32+[2](colophon, verso blank); tall demy 8vo; green papered boards, slightly soiled and rubbed, fore-corners lightly bruised or worn, the spine slightly chipped and split at extremities; uncut; endpapers offset, a couple of spots of foxing; published for the Shelley Society/Reeves and Turner, London, 1887. One of 500 copies thus [Van Gelder paper, green papered boards], printed by Richard Clay & Sons. The Shelley Society's Publications. Second series, No. 7. Smith (Shelley), p. 320. *According to Smith, there were also 3 copies printed on vellum and 15 copies on large Van Gelder paper in pink papered boards. Wise had acquired his own copy of Epipsychidion a year earlier, when he first became an active member of the Shelley Society:blang2057 'In 1886, when he was twenty-six, he found out Mrs. Cheltnam, and bought from her Shelley's Epipsychidion, which the poet had given to her father, Leigh Hunt.' lang2057 [Partington, p. 36].