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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited By Mrs. Shelley ( 2 Vols of 4)
by SHELLEY Percy Bysshe
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Edward Moxon, 1839 only 2 volumes of 4, original blind embossed cloth with gilt titled spines, light bumping to edges, vol 4 has splitting to the upper joint, both volumes have a tidy and faint name stamp to the title pages, "Walter Mantell" in an oval, (probably Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell), vol 3 small area discoloured to front hinge, as issued with pale yellow endpapers, untrimmed top edge, head of spines are slightly chipped with minimal loss, vol3; viii 314+2pp vol4; viii 361+3pp, First Collected Edition, and the first with Mary Shelley's notes. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010301
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited By Mrs. Shelley ( 2 Vols of 4)
- Author
- SHELLEY Percy Bysshe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Moxon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1839
- Keywords
- Percy Bysshe Shelley Early Edition First Authorised Collection Works Mrs Shelley Contemporary Binding Original Cloth First collected edition Nineteenth Century Romanticism Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
- Bookseller catalogs
- ANTIQUARIAN & DELUXE EDITIONS;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About Fortuna Books
Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.
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- Gilt
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- Hinge
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- First Edition
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