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Price: US$78.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear, spine toned. Book has clean and bright contents, endpapers toned, no inscriptions, 439pp with rough-cut ends.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London : Reeves And Turner [1876-1877] January 1876 Binding: Hardcover 1876, sunning to top half of front board of fourth volume, otherwise all volumes in very good condition in brown half calf and marbled boards. $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Percy Shelley. The Poetical Works (in four volumes) [first edition]. Reeves, 1876.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Romantic Poetry] Shelley, Percy Bysshe; The Poetical Works [in four volumes]; London; 1876-1877; Reeves; Octavo; 1900 total pages; first edition. A good to good(+) set of Percy Shelley s poetry, important too because the volumes are edited by Harry Buxton Forman. Bound in publisher s original blue/green cloth over boards with very handsome gold embellishment on boards and spines and gold text on spines. Moderate wear to edges with some normal bumping to spine extremes and unbound corners. Occasional rubbing; gilded text and illustrations are generally bold and crisp; bindings are square and tight; previous owner s bookplates on front pastedowns; some spotting, particularly on endpapers; interiors of volumes are generally clean and tidy. Includes clear plastic wraparound acetate jackets in good to very good condition. A beautiful set for the collector of Romantic Poetry.
Seller: Forgotten Lore, Friendswood, TX, U.S.A.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Reeves and Turner, 1876.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1876 Mary SHELLEY Poetical Percy Shelley FAMOUS English Poem Forman Fine Binding Percy Bysshe Shelley was a 19th-century English poet who is, unfortunately, best-known through the fame gained by his wife Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley edited his poetical works, which was first published in 1839, and included copious notes. According to St. Clair, Mary Shelley brought [Percy] Shelley into the mainstream of the national culture The notes that Mary added are masterpieces of editing, adding so immeasurably to the reader's understanding that nobody would now consider printing Shelley's poems without them. This 1876 edition was edited by Harry Buxton Forman who in Professor Dowdens words was, 'our chief living authority on all that relates to Shelley's writings.' Item number: #30325 Price: $750 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley London: Reeves and Turner, 1876-77. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes o Vol. I xl, [2], 413, [3] o Vol. II vii, [1], 438, [2] o Vol. III xx, 476, [2] o Vol. IV xix, [1], 573, [3] o 10 illustrations References: Lowndes 2374; St Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys; The Shelley Library, 1886; Language: English Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~8.75in X 5.75in (22.5cm x 15cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 30325 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Shelley. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Reeves and Turner, 1876.
Price: US$901.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Four volume set. Bound in original blue cloth with beautiful gilded embossed floral design to front boards by Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Gilded titles to spine. Fontis and plates. THE FIRST OF THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT BUXTON FORMAN EDITIONS
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$939.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Poetical works in four volumes together with the Prose works in four volumes. Complete. Original publishers cloth, a bit browned to spines, with edges lightly rubbed, bindings solid. Armorial bookplates to front pastedowns and front and rear end papers foxed, but overall a very good solid set. Gilt cover decorations after a design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A definitive edition of Shelly's works
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$1209.86 + shipping
Description: A fine set in the original, full calf. Period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans &c. On request. ; 1 pages; Physical desc. : 4 v. : ill. , fronts. (ports. ) . , pl. , facsim. ; 22 cm. 6 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 4 volumes, 8vo, later full green pebble-grain morocco, gilt rules on covers, fleurons in the corners, inner dentelles, gilt decorated spines, a.e.g., by Little, Brown & Co.; Franklin Dexter bookplates; 10 plates and facsimiles; slight rubbing but near fine throughout.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1324.00 + shipping
Description: A fine set in the original, full calf. Period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans &c. On request. ; 1 pages; Physical desc. : 4 v. : ill. , fronts. (ports. ) . , pl. , facsim. ; 22 cm. 6 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Description: First edition edited by H. Buxton Forman. 8vo., 8 volumes, handsomely bound for Sotherans by Riviere & Son in half brown gilt ruled morocco, spines panelled and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. With bookplate of British banker and Conservative politician Sir Gervase Beckett "It would be difficult indeed to over-estimate the gains which have accrued to the lovers of Shelley from the strenuous labours of Mr. Harry Buxton Forman, C.B. He too has enlarged the body of Shelley's poetry (Mr. Forman's most notable addition is the second part of The Daemon of the World, which he printed privately in 1876, and included in his Library Edition of the Poetical Works published in the same year but, important as his editions undoubtedly are, it may safely be affirmed that his services in this direction constitute the least part of what we owe him. He has vindicated the authenticity of the text in many places, while in many others he has succeeded, with the aid of manuscripts, in restoring it. His untiring industry in research, his wide bibliographical knowledge and experience, above all, his accuracy, as invariable as it is minute, have combined to make him, in the words of Professor Dowden, 'our chief living authority on all that relates to Shelley's writings.' His name stands securely linked for all time to Shelley's by a long series of notable words, including three successive editions (1876, 1882, 1892) of the Poems, an edition of the Prose Remains, as well as many minor publicationsa Bibliography (The Shelley Library, 1886) and several Facsimile Reprints of the early issues, edited for the Shelley Society" (Oxford Edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom