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Price: US$66.70 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 465 copies printed for the Bibliophile Society. Quarter vellum on brown, paper-covered boards. Untrimmed edges. Some plates of Shelley's originals. A fair bit of foxing throughout but still perfectly reasonable with firm hinges and respectable boards & spine. Occasional pencilled annotations & Italian translations. Postage for 3 vols will need extra postage
Seller: Mogul Diamonds, nr. Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 250 copies printed for Bixby. 3 vols, quarter-vellum and boards, 25 cm, xvi, 209, [1] + vii, 187, [1] + vi, 179, [1] pp, several plates. Bixby had bought the three notebooks edited here for some £3000 - he allowed the Bibliophile Society of Boston to publish them (in an edition of 465 copies) with a further 250 copies (as here) printed for himself. John Collins in 'The Two Forgers' notes that the books are "a triumph of [Harry Buxton] Forman's patient and dedicated editing" - the originals are chaotic as described here "Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish and English are all mixed up together, and lines in one language often apear written directly or diagonally across other lines written in another language". Collins also notes that the books include a reminder of the "Mr Hyde side of Forman": the frontispiece 'portrait of Shelley' is in fact an unacknowledged copy of the Leonardo da Vinci head of Christ, with slight alterations: "This confection was commissioned by Forman.presumably in silent mockery of the whole Shelley cult. The fraud was not published until 1947". Volume I has a signed presentation inscription from the publisher to Robert Underwood Johnson "with regards of W.K. Bixby, St. Louis, 11/14/11" and this volume is also numbered 164 and initialled by Bixby. Johnson was a founding member of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. His bookplate is present on the front pastedown endpaper of each volume. Vellum a little fingersoiled, contents with foxing throughout.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$243.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A fascinating limited edition comprising the notebooks of Romantic Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited and deciphered by Buxton Forman. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a radical Romantic poet whose renown grew after his tragically young death. Admirers of his prose and essays include Gandhi, Karl Marx and George Bernard Shaw, and his poetical works influenced the likes of Browning, Hardy and Yeats, not to say the literary circles he ran in at the time of his death, including Lord Byron and his wife, Mary Shelley. Famously, he drowned in Italy and so his body was cremated upon discovery: his heart resisted the flames, and was preserved in spirits and returned to his wife.Deciphered, edited and with the ownership bookplate of Harry Buxton Forman. Buxton Forman was a Victorian bibliographer best known for his works on Keats and Shelley.Complete in three volumes.A limited edition, with four hundred and sixty-five copies produced.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author to the first volume, as well as a facsimile to the rear of volume II.Containing the author's bookplate, which has been designed by Bell Scott. With the bookplate of Elizabeth Watson Diamond's bookplate to the front endpaper. Watson Diamond was a collector of bookplates and owner of the Hyacinth Press.A smart example of this uncommon collection. In the publisher's original quarter vellum binding. Externally generally smart; rubbing to the joints, and spines are a little discoloured. Extremities are a touch bumped. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown and endpaper of each volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are spotted throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society. 3 vols. 4to. Presentation copy of WK Bixby. This copy of the limited edition of 475 bears a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: Miss Anne Woodin with best wishes of Mr & Mrs W.K. Bixby, Nov. 1920. These notebooks had originally been given to Richard Garnett by Sir Percy and Lady Shelley in recognition for his long devoted service in assisting to sort out all the Shelley papers and manuscripts, and then made their way into the possession of William Keeney Bixby. W K Bixby was born in 1857 and was a passionate collector of autographs, manuscripts, rare books, and art. His work with the Union Pacific Railroad and American Car & Foundry Company allowed him to retire at the age of 48 and devote the rest of his life to travel and literature. These volumes contain the first printing of the stanza from "Love's Philosophy" that Shelley did not present to Miss Sophia Stacy when he gave her the rest. Granniss 91 Original parchment-backed gray boards. Fine, fresh copy One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society. 3 vols. 4to. These notebooks had originally been given to Richard Garnett by Sir Percy and Lady Shelley in recognition for his long devoted service in assisting to sort out all the Shelley papers and manuscript They contain the first printing of the stanza from "Love's Philosophy" that Shelley did not present to Miss Sophia Stacy when he gave her the rest. Granniss 91 Original parchment-backed gray boards. Fine, fresh copy One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.