Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Notes by W. Clark. Queen Mab. W. Clark, London, 1821.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Disbound, no covers, pages are loose. Collated and complete. Title page has chipping and browned margins. There is scattered marginal foxing and some written notes. ; First published edition. Poem is 89 pages, with 90 pages of notes. Includes the plate "The Auto Da Fe". ; 89 + notes pages

Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.

Shelley, Percy Bysse. Queen Mab. W. Clark, London, 1821.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Red cloth with black title panel on spine. With the dedication poem "To Harriet" present. The poem is 89 pages with pages 91 through 182 made up of the notes. A pretty good copy. Front hinge is cracked, otherwise binding is tight. The first 10 pages have some brown spotting in the margin at the top of the pages. Pages 154 and 155 have a small brown stain near the top edge in the margin. Some minor signs of use on page edges, light smudges, etc. Inside back cover, endpaper and pastedown are a little soiled. Title panel is chipped and missing some bits from the edge. A near good copy.

Seller: Pam's Fine Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.. Queen Mab.. Printed and Published by W. Clark, London, 1821.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: 182 pp. 8vo, publisher's boards with printed paper label on spine. Preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. First regularly published edition. This copy lacks free endpapers from and rear, the dedication leaf, and the ads. Armorial bookplate; extremities of spine chipped and edges of boards worn; cracked at the joints but cords still sound.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. London: W. Clark 1821, 1821.

Price: US$962.45 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 230x140mm. pp. 182, [2]. First published, albeit pirate, edition, printed by William Clark assisted by the book pirate Thomas Moses whose "T.M." monogram appears below Clark's imprint on the final page of the text. Original drab boards, backed with green cloth, remains of paper label on joints. Corners worn and edges a little rubbed, boards marked in places. Hinges cracked with some loosening. Slightly foxed but otherwise very good internally. Front pastedown has booklabel of Christopher Clark Geest. First published in a small edition with a dedication to Harriet in 1813, Queen Mab was then printed twice, without Shelley's permission, in 1821. This copy is the version with the notes printed in full and with the dedication removed. It also has the final advertising leaf and some (intentionally) missing words on pp146-148. A scandalous work, published scandalously, "pounced upon" by the Society for the Prevention of Vice and resulting in the imprisonment of Clark the printer and bookseller. It also led to Shelley's radical ideas (on subjects including vegetarianism and atheism) being openly discussed in the public forum. Always dangerous. Granniss, 19.

Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, United Kingdom

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.. Queen Mab.. W. Clark, London., 1821.

Price: US$1090.78 + shipping

Description: Second (unauthorised) edition. The first edition, of which were there were approximately 250 copies, was privately printed by the author in 1813. The first regularly published edition did not appear until 1822, after Shelley's death, under the imprint of the radical publisher, Richard Carlile. Carlile had wanted to publish the poem in the first place, but had been refused permission by Shelley, his reason for doing so being that he did not want to be represented to the wider public by an immature work. Carlile's former employee, William Clark, was rather less scrupulous and both he and another piratical publisher, William Benbow, brought out editions in London and New York respectively. In his haste to take advantage of the poem's notoriety, Clark printed the poem in various states, and always without its secondary title A Philosophical Poem: With Notes; also he dropped the quotations from Voltaire, Lucretius and Archimedes from the title-page. Clark's aim was strictly monetary whereas Carlile was politically motivated. Shelley sought to suppress the 1821 editions but because of a court ruling stating "that books liable to conviction for blasphemy or sedition were not entitled to legal protection" his hands were tied. The government stepped in and indicted Clark who, after a court case, spent four months in prison. Octavo. 183 pages, with the rarely included 2-page dedication poem to Harriet, Shelley's first wife, which in this copy is placed at the rear in lieu of the advertisement leaf found in the majority of copies - in some copies poem appears after the title-page. In most copies it doesn't appear at all. Original grey paper boards. Early ownership signature on front pastedown. Covers worn and defective at head and tail of spine and split at the hinges. Endpapers spotted. Good. Preserved in a slightly rubbed full leather book-form slipcase, with raised bands, gilt rules, and burgundy leather title-label and black leather author label.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.. Queen Mab.. London: Printed and published by W. Clark . 1821, 1821.

Price: US$1219.10 + shipping

Description: 8vo., pp. 182; without dedication leaf and terminal advertisement leaf, as is often the case; otherwise a good, clean copy in recent quarter calf and boards.Second (first published edition) of Shelley's most provocative poem. The radical bookseller and pirate William Clark came across a copy of the privately-printed first edition in 1821 and brought out this unauthorized text, 'studious in adhering to the original copy', printing the notes in French, Latin and Greek in their original language, but helpfully providing a translation for the general reader (statement on page [92]). There were in fact two versions of Clark's text, one (as here) with some of the more aggressive passages expurgated, the other printing the poem and notes complete. For his pains Clark (described by Shelley as 'one of the low booksellers in the Strand'), was prosecuted by the Society for the Prevention of Vice and imprisoned for four months. Unintentionally Shelley had reached a new audience through Clark's and other piracies. Queen Mab became the most widely read of Shelley's poems, and in later years an inspiration for the Chartists.Buxton Forman 22; Granniss 19. Language: English

Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. Printed and Published by W. Clark, London, 1821.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: First published edition. 182, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The is the first published edition of Shelley's first poem of any length. It was privately printed in 1813 in a very small edition, and originally contained a poetical dedication to Harriet which Shelley was in the habit of cutting out in copies he gave to friends. Much to Shelley's consternation, this edition was printed by Clarke without the poet's authorization (Clarke spent 4 months in prison for it), and, according to Granniss "some copies contain the dedication to Harriet, and in some, certain words and lines have been omitted ." This copy has certain sections omitted on pp. 146 & 147, it is lacking the advertising page, and in its place is bound the dedication "To Harriet." Granniss 19; Tinker 1888 Contemporary three quarter green morocco and cloth. Bookplate of Barnton. Fine

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. Printed and Published by W. Clark, London, 1821.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: First published edition (unauthorized), expurgated state, and with publisher's ad leaf presentadverrtising this editio at 1s. 6d. bds. 182, [1, ads]pp. 8vo. "QUEEN MAB" (1821 CLARK EDITION, WITH EXPURGATED TEXT AND AD LEAF). This edition was published without Shelley's consent, and the publisher spent four months in jail, on the grounds of distribution of illegal material, and he was eventually pardoned (agreeing to provide all unsold copies to the Society for the Suppression of Vice). Tinker 1888; NCBEL III, 314; originally privately printed in a very small edition in 1813] Bound in contemporary quarter brown calf and marbled boards First published edition (unauthorized), expurgated state, and with publisher's ad leaf presentadverrtising this editio at 1s. 6d. bds.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Queen Mab. Printed and Published by W. Clark, London, 1821.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: First published edition, thin paper copy. 182, [4] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Though a piracy by William Clark - with the help of book pirate Thomas Moses, whose monogram appears in black letter below the imprint on the penultimate leaf - the is the first published edition of Shelley's first poem of any length. It was privately printed in 1813 in a very small edition, and originally contained a poetical dedication to Harriet. Shelley was in the habit of cutting out the title page and the dedication in copies he gave to friends, to avoid his inflammatory views about politics, the family, and religion being noted by the authorities. There are two known versions of this edition, the first that prints the notes in their entirety and excises the dedication, and a second that includes the dedication and deletes words and lines from the notes. Shelley wrote a letter from Pisa on June 22, 1821, both "exonerat[ing]" himself and asking to "restrain the sale." Clark, threatened by prosecution (for Vice), voluntarily discontinued distribution after selling about only 50 copies. He was brought to trial and found guilty, serving four months. Clark's piracy was the first of three caused Shelley's poem, and the ideas therein, to be discussed publicly for the first time. The present copy has a present advertising leaf, and no missing words or lines between pp. 146-148, and a supplied dedication from Carlile's 1822 edition (that used Clark's plates). Granniss 19; Tinker 1888; Ashley V., p.150; Scwhartz, L. M., "Two New Contemporary Reviews of Shelley's Queen Mab", Keats-Shelley Journal, 1970, Vol. 19 (1970), pp. 77-85 In original boards nicked at the head and rubbed at the foot of the spine, very good with minimal loss to the spine label and structurally sound. Faint foxing to ffep, with a few scattered spots in the first pages. Some annotation in pencil throughout (numbers relating to line breaks and poem titles).The C.W. Frederickson copy,with his bookplate. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux. Laid into a quarter morocco slipcase and chemise First published edition, thin paper copy.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. W. Clark (printed and published by), 1821.

Price: US$3760.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Finely bound in half morocco with marbled boards and gilt ruling, edges worn, with one or two nics to extremities. T.E.G. Five raised bands to spine; title, author, year, and flower motif to compartments. Marbled endpapers to match boards. Small ex libris of `M.A. Elton` [Mary Augusta Elton, book collector] to upper left corner of front pastedown. Extremely faint foxing to first few and last pages. Includes the rare dedication leaf to `Harriet *****`, Shelley`s first wife, after title page. W. Clark`s imprint on page 182. Also includes the rare page of ads by Clark after p.182. Text and notes in the expurgated version, with words or phrases considered offensive replaced by a series of dashes. This text was published by Clark without Shelley`s permission, for which the publisher spent four months in prison. Extremely rare with the printed dedication to Harriet and the page of advertisements at the back. This exact book appears on p.177 of `A catalogue of a portion of the library of Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton`, published in 1891 by Quaritch in London. 182 p. Text in English. Beautiful copy of the first published edition of the book which launched Shelley`s literary career.

Seller: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB), Tokyo, Japan