Selected with a prefatory notice, by Joseph Skipsey.
London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., [late 19th-century].
A sweet copy of the lyrical poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, and his elegy on the death of John Keats, Adonais.
Small 8vo (14 x 10.5 cm); gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper; contemporary vellum-backed blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt above stylised rose stem heightened in red, top-edge gilt, slight spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, otherwise internally clean and very pleasant; 291, [1]pp.
Small 8vo (14 x 10.5 cm); gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper; contemporary vellum-backed blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt above stylised rose stem heightened in red, top-edge gilt, slight spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, otherwise internally clean and very pleasant; 291, [1]pp.
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