THE PROPERTY OF JAMES BIERI
SHELLEY, Percy B. Queen Mab. London: R. Carlile, 1822.

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SHELLEY, Percy B. Queen Mab. London: R. Carlile, 1822.

8o. (Some pale spotting.) Original drab boards (few chips to spine and corners); cloth folding case. Provenance: W. Rawlings (signature on pastedown).

Second English published edition; first printed privately in 1813, and then published in a pirated edition by R. Clark in 1821, for which Clark subsequently received four months' imprisonment. With cancel title, Clark's Notes and the final leaf carrying the suppressed dedication "To Harriet." Ashley V, p. 150.

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