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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)--Thomas MEDWIN 1788-1869). The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.
2 volumes, 12° (192 x 116mm). One-leaf folding facsimile manuscript, 26 plates, including ?24 extra-illustrations, 10 hand-coloured. A Cosway-style binding in 20th-century dark brown morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover of volume I with inset original portrait miniature of Shelley, the miniature surrounded with double fillet, each cover with outer border of double fillet and dot-roll, the fillets incorporating decorative cornerpieces of stylised leaves, dots and small circles, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with simple repeat decoration centred on a stylised flowerhead, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION. (2)
2 volumes, 12° (192 x 116mm). One-leaf folding facsimile manuscript, 26 plates, including ?24 extra-illustrations, 10 hand-coloured. A Cosway-style binding in 20th-century dark brown morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover of volume I with inset original portrait miniature of Shelley, the miniature surrounded with double fillet, each cover with outer border of double fillet and dot-roll, the fillets incorporating decorative cornerpieces of stylised leaves, dots and small circles, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with simple repeat decoration centred on a stylised flowerhead, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION. (2)
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