Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Ingpen, Robert, ed. The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Collected and Edited by Roger Ingpen. With Illustrations. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, London, 1909.

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Description: Complete in two volumes. lviii, 479pp; xvi, [480]-1020pp. Blue half calf over marbled boards, spines with red morocco labels lettered in gold, raised bands, and elaborately decorated in gold, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. The gorgeous bindings are signed by Zaehnsdorf on the verso of the front free endpapers and were made for Charles Scribner's Sons. With b&w photographs, drawings, and foldout letters facsimiles. Number in red pencil on the flyleaves, a few light scuffs to leather on the front panel of volume 1 and along the edges of both volumes. Text blocks are very clean. A near fine set. ; Octavo.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Letters of.Collected and Edited by Roger Ingpen. With Illiustrations. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, London, 1909.

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Description: First edition, Copy no. 4 of 200 Large Paper Copies. lviii, 479; xvi, 481-1020 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. EDWARD DOWDEN'S SET, PRESENTATION. Inscribed "To Professor Edward Dowden with Roger Ingpen's compliments & thanks Sept 6th, 1909." WITH a full page ALS to Dowden from Ingpen tipped in on the same date. Telling him he is sending this copy of his book which was to be published the next day, the 7th. One can see his acknowledgement to Dowden's scholarship on p. vi of the Preface and his thanks in this letter. A great association copy. Bound in half publisher's black pebbled morocco and cloth, t.e.g, rest uncut. Fine lviii, 479; xvi, 481-1020 pp. 2 vols. 8vo First edition, Copy no. 4 of 200 Large Paper Copies.

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