[Rarebooks] FS: Presentation copy from Thomas Wise of Shelley's "Adonais" facsimile. London: 1886

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Shelley, Percy Bysse. ADONAIS, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. First Printed at Pisa With the Types of Didot in 1821 and Now Reprinted in Exact Facsimile. Edited with a Bibliographical Introduction by Thomas J. Wise. London: The Shelley Society. 1886. 4to. 2 parts in 1. 22,(2);(4),25,(5)pp. Edition limited to 300 copies. The second part (the facsimile) includes the 2 blue printed wrappers exactly as published in 1821. Orig. blue printed boards, extremities a bit rubbed, but overall very good. This copy boldly inscribed on the front free endpaper, "W. G. Kingsland, Esq. with kind regards of his friend Thos. J. Wise, March 26th, '86."    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
Kingsland was an English literature scholar, an expert on Robert Browning and a staunch supporter of T. J. Wise. See the article in The Papers of the Bibliog. Soc. of America, Vol. 62, No.1 (1968), "The Not-So-Gentle Art of Puffery: William F. Kingsland and Thomas J. Wise" by L. H. Kendall, Jr. Laid into this copy are 2 pieces of ephemera; Kingsland's 4 page, "Shelley: a Tribute" and a 10 page article, "Notes on the Ms. Volume of Shelley's Poems, in the Library of Harvard College," by G. E. Woodberry. ADONAIS is the Shelley Society's Publication, Second Series, No. 1.

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