[Rarebooks] fa: PERCY SHELLEY - POETICAL WORKS - Edited by MARY SHELLEY - FIRST ED. 1839 (Handsome Bindings)

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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley.  
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. FIRST EDITION. Four volumes, small 8vos  
(17 cm) in full polished plum calf with gilt-tooled rules, spines and  
spine labels, marbled endpapers and page edges; 380, 347, 314, 361  
pp.; frontispiece in vol. I, half-title in vol. II, terminal leaf of  
publisher's adverts in vol. III.

First collected edition of Shelley's works, edited by his widow, Mary  
Wollstonecraft Shelley. Her preface and, most especially, her notes to  
the poems were/are invaluable to the Shelley collector and scholar.  
Bindings show light wear, a few scratches, mild darkening to the  
spines, some uneven sunning to several of the boards, rubbing to the  
joints; two exterior hinges just starting at the ends, but the boards  
are secure; title-page of vol. I somewhat tanned from the  
frontispiece, stain to four leaves in vol. III, a few (very few) small  
spots elsewhere; otherwise contents are very clean and fresh, firmly  
bound. An appealing copy of an important set.