The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley : given from his own editions and other authentic sources collated with many manuscripts and with all editions of authenticity together with his prefaces and notes his poetical translations and fragments and an appendix of juvenilia / edited by H Buxton Forman.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Category
Books
Date
1886
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086154
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., port. ; 8vo. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt stamp on rear pastedowns: 'Bound for Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd. London.'. Binding: Twentieth-century Cosway-style binding: full red morocco; gilt fillets and rolls to form an outer border on boards; centrepiece on upper boards: gilt stamped monogram 'PBS' on circle of inlaid blue morocco within circular frame of gilt fillets; centrepiece on lower boards: gilt stamped pansy on circle of inlaid purple morocco within circular frame of gilt fillets, lettered: 'Pansies let my flowers be'; cornerpieces on boards of gilt tooled pansies with inlaid purple morocco; sewn onto five raised bands; spines gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Shelley's poetical works' and 'Vol. I[-II]'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt gauffered textblock edges; green morocco pastedowns; miniature of Percy Bysshe Shelley under glass on front pastedown in vol. 1, in gilt metal frame with gilt rolled border and wreath with six gilt tooled flowers with inlaid red morocco and pearls; pattern of gilt tooled leaves and flowers with inlaid white morocco on front pastedown of vol. 1; cornerpieces of gilt tooled leaves and flowers with inlaid white morocco on rear pastedown in vol. 1 and both pastedowns in vol. 2; pattern of gilt stamped flowers and tufts of grass on rear pastedown in vol. 1 and both pastedowns in vol. 2; ivory watered silk free endleaves. Gilt stamp on rear pastedowns: 'Bound for Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd. London.'. Gilt stamped monogram on rear pastedowns: 'S&S' [i.e. Sangorski & Sutcliffe]. In red cloth-covered box with gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), author Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917), editor Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), commentator