SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.. Queen Mab.. John Brooks. 1829, 1829.

Price: US$677.56 + shipping

Description: Engr. title. Some foxing throughout, title particularly browned. Uncut in later cream boards, new paper label; sl. marked, recased. First published privately in 1813, and frequently pirated in the following years. Copac lists copies of this unauthorised edition at BL, Oxford, and Eton only. Queen Mab was Shelley's first long poem - he originally intended for it to be privately circulated because of controversial subject matter.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom