SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem: with Notes. London: Printed by P.B. Shelley, 22, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square 1813. 8vo, 19.3 x 11.4cm. (7 5/8 x 4 1/2in.). green morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, by Bedford, an inch long but slight crack in rear outer joint, green morocco case. FIRST EDITION, AN UNMUTILATED COPY, with the dedication leaf "To Harriet*****" and with Shelley's imprint on title-page and final leaf intact. Shelley's first substantial poem, privately printed in an edition of probably 250 copies; a small quotation from the Iliad written in margin of first page by an early owner. Granniss 15; Tinker 1886; Hayward 225: "In almost all surviving copies these [dedication and the imprints] were cut out by Shelley himself." A very good, tall copy.

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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem: with Notes. London: Printed by P.B. Shelley, 22, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square 1813. 8vo, 19.3 x 11.4cm. (7 5/8 x 4 1/2in.). green morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, by Bedford, an inch long but slight crack in rear outer joint, green morocco case. FIRST EDITION, AN UNMUTILATED COPY, with the dedication leaf "To Harriet*****" and with Shelley's imprint on title-page and final leaf intact. Shelley's first substantial poem, privately printed in an edition of probably 250 copies; a small quotation from the Iliad written in margin of first page by an early owner. Granniss 15; Tinker 1886; Hayward 225: "In almost all surviving copies these [dedication and the imprints] were cut out by Shelley himself." A very good, tall copy.

Provenance: William Warren Carman, bookplate.