The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Edited by Mrs. Shelley. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
by Shelley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First authorised edition in 4 volumes. Published by Edward Moxon
1839. Portrait frontis piece to volume 1. Original publishers blind stamped red cloth lettered in gilt on spines. All original yellow endpapers, name in ink on first free e.p.
Slight wear to tops of spines and extremities slightly rubbed. Overall good tight copies.
Scarce in original cloth.
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Details
- Bookseller
- vincentgbarlow.co.uk (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- vgb 113
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author
- Shelley
- Format/Binding
- Publishers original blind stamped cloth gilt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First authorised edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Moxon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1839
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
vincentgbarlow.co.uk
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southampton, Hampshire
About vincentgbarlow.co.uk
I started this particular business in 1981 although I have been dealing in books and works on paper since 1969. I exhibit at the E.T.C. book fair in London at the Royal National Hotel each month and have been doing so for the last 30 years. I have sold works on paper to many of the National Museums and Galleries in Britain and abroad including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the School of Art Museum and Galleries, Aberystwyth and the State Library of Victoria and the Baillieu Library, The University of Melbourne, Australia among others. My website at http://www.vincentgbarlow.co.uk specialises in works on paper and books illustrated with original graphics and artists prints. Business by internet and book fair only. Store room by appointment.
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- Gilt
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