The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley : including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems /
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3186895
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 912 p. : port. ; 19 cm. Imperfect: lacks portrait. Inscribed on endpaper in shaded letters: Adonais. Pencil price note: 3/6. Pencil annotation and text marking. Loosely inserted manuscript note (p.153): [in hand of Vita Sackville-West]: "That girl is like E Bibesco"; [inscribed beneath in hand of Harold Nicolson]: "I thought like Violet Trefuska" [sic]. Unidentified map drawn in pencil on reverse. Manuscript note inserted (p.597): on source of Shelley line found in "Alice Meynell's notebook." Provenance: pictorial bookplate: “Vita. A good book is the best of friends the same today and forever. 1908 Knole” [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Thomas Hutchinson