Shelley rolls john c e (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 8vo. 159pp. Black cloth, top edge gilt, gilt spine lettering, very fine copy in dust jacket. Jacket with a few little chips to the edges and a very small chip to the spine.

Proof copy. Octavo, pp., 159, [3]; all leaves printed one side only (recto or verso) only throughout. Frontispiece plate "Sketch by Shelley" and four plates of manuscripts, as called for. Ganymede watermark to pages 1 and 7. Full original canary yellow cloth with gilt titles to maroon leather label to spine. Annotated extensively in pencil throughout by editor Roger Eric Ingpen. Includes "Prometheus Unbound" and "Hellas" in Part I Verse and "Journal: Switzerland, 1816" and "On the Vegetable System of Diet" in Part II Prose, with notes. Many of Ingpen's textual notes in this proof copy were enacted in the first edition. An insight into the editorial practice of one of the most significant Shelley scholars of the twentieth century. Spine lightly sunned and cover cloth surface soiled. Light foxing, mainly to endpapers and text-block edge. A very good copy.…