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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)--Francis GRIBBLE. The Romantic Life of Shelley and the Sequel. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912.
8° (211 x 137mm). Half-title. 23 plates, 7 hand-coloured, 6 mounted to size, including a number of extra-illustrations. A Cosway-style binding in later blue morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover with inset original oval portrait miniature of Shelley, the miniature surrounded with elaborate gilt border of strap-work-like stylised foliage and flower-heads, simple outer border of a single fillet, the lower cover with a large centrally-placed circular design similar the miniature-surround on the upper cover, but centring on a large gilt initial 'S', spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration of strap-work-like foliage, gilt turn-ins, watered-silk endleaves, gilt edges.
8° (211 x 137mm). Half-title. 23 plates, 7 hand-coloured, 6 mounted to size, including a number of extra-illustrations. A Cosway-style binding in later blue morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover with inset original oval portrait miniature of Shelley, the miniature surrounded with elaborate gilt border of strap-work-like stylised foliage and flower-heads, simple outer border of a single fillet, the lower cover with a large centrally-placed circular design similar the miniature-surround on the upper cover, but centring on a large gilt initial 'S', spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration of strap-work-like foliage, gilt turn-ins, watered-silk endleaves, gilt edges.
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Please note that this lot also includes an extra-illustrated copy of Mrs J. Marshall's The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2 volumes, London: 1889. 3 volumes in the lot, and not one as stated in the catalogue.