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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts. With Other Poems. London: Marchant for C. and J. Ollier, 1820.
8o. Half-title and advertisement leaf at end. (Ad leaf slightly shorter.) Blue morocco gilt, t.e.g., by Riviere (joints light rubbed).
A TALL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the Contents leaf cancelled, correcting the spelling of "Miscellaneous." Prometheus Unbound is one of Shelley's most ambitious works, and the collected short poems at the volume's end include the first printings of "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," and "The Sensitive Plant." Ashley V, pp.73-74; Granniss Shelley 54; Hayward 228; Tinker 1898; Wise Shelley, pp.55-6.
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A TALL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the Contents leaf cancelled, correcting the spelling of "Miscellaneous." Prometheus Unbound is one of Shelley's most ambitious works, and the collected short poems at the volume's end include the first printings of "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," and "The Sensitive Plant." Ashley V, pp.73-74; Granniss Shelley 54; Hayward 228; Tinker 1898; Wise Shelley, pp.55-6.