Epipsychidion
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Used
- Condition
- Orig. full vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Very good
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1928. leather_bound. Orig. full vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Very good. 38 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition, one of 220 copies printed on vellum paper with the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Verses Addressed To The Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilio V____, This work was inspired by Shelley's meeting, at the end of October 1820 when the author had moved back to Pisa, the beautiful, young Teresa Viviani (1801--1836), who was being kept in a convent awaiting the outcome of marriage arrangements in which she played little part. But it also reflects the difficulties he was facing in his second marriage to Mary Godwin, and looks back to the desolation the poet faced after the suicide of his first wife Harriet Westbrook. Covers slightly splayed, bookplate, covers and interior fresh and clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21216
- Title
- Epipsychidion
- Author
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. full vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Officina Bodoni
- Place of Publication
- Montagnola
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press;
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ardsley, New York
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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