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Condition: Poor
Description: Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". viii + 360pp. One volume of the 2-volume set. Disbound. Text block loose from boards and spine. Spine remains attached to both boards, though there are splits to both joints. Text block split in two at p 96. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges browned. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; 19th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 49500.
Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. Volume 1 only. rebacked spine, cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and edgewear, bumped corners. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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Description: 2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL BINDINGS, octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spines, blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled page edges, vol 1- xxxii + 319pp, vol 2- viii + 360pp, G+ (heavy chipping to spine extrems with some moderate loss, moderate cracking to front hinge of vol 2, moderate chafing & discolouration to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & light foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- boards a little shaky, ex-libris labels to front pastedowns of both vols, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of both vols)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Excellent set in grey paper boards, neatly recased, with original paper labels: "Shelley's Essays and Letters/ In two volumes/ .Price 12s in bds." This title not usually found in this binding.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
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Description: First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by Mary Shelley in December 1839. Contains the first printing of Shelley's "The Defence of Poetry" and also his translations from the classics (including Plato's "Symposium," "Ion," and fragments from "The Republic") and 67 letters. "The Defence of Poetry" was edited by John Hunt for inclusion in "The Liberal" but the magazine folded before it could be published. This first appearance used John Hunt's edited version. Inscribed in each volume, "Julia Robinson from her affectionate friend, Mary Shelley, Putney 22 Dec. 1839". This inscription documents Mary Shelley's close connection with the Robinson family, who figure for many years in her journals (as well as in the Journals of William Godwin, her father). From February 1827 Mary became close to Julia and Isabel (or Isabella) Robinson, daughters of Joshua Robinson, an Oxford graduate and a successful builder with a large family and a large residence, Park Cottage in Paddington. After Isabella bore an illegitimate child, she and Mary Shelley shared lodgings in the south of England in the summer of 1827. The inscription also points to a long-secret chapter in Mary's life documented by Betty T. Bennett in Mary Diana Dods, A Gentleman and a Scholar (1991). Mary Shelley's friend Mary Diana Dods was the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish earl and wrote numerous works for Blackwood's Magazine under the name David Lyndsay, including a story collection, Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful (1825). Beginning in 1827 Mary Dods assumed the name and persona of Mr. Walter Sholto Douglas and, with Isabella Robinson, determined to live on the Continent where it was cheaper and where the legitimacy of Isabella's child would not be questioned. Mary Shelley secured the passports for the couple to travel to France as Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sholto Douglas. In April 1828, Mary Shelley travelled to Paris with Mr. Robinson and Julia "who has become Mary Shelley's new young companion" (Bennett, 38) to visit the Douglases. During much of that stay Mary was ill with smallpox, and "her great regret is that she endangered Julia Robinson" (Bennett, 136). Mr. Sholto Douglas was later imprisoned for debt and died in France. Isabella was estranged from Mary Shelley when she returned to England in 1830, but Mary and her son lived with Julia Robinson for part of 1833 and clearly preserved friendly ties thereafter. An important book with an evocative association. Forman 77; Graniss 82. For Isabella Robinson and David Lyndsay, see Betty T. Bennett. Mary Diana Dods, A Gentleman and a Scholar (1991) Recent half morocco and cloth. Formerly in the Exeter City Library with stamps. With a number of early, neat pencil annotations in an unidentified hand (1:164, 1:167; 1:234-239, three pages with lines shaved at the bindery). Very good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.