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    FINE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

    London, South Kensington

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    8 June 2004

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    Lot 107

    SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) & Charles ROBINSON (illustrator). The Sensitive Plant, London: William Heinemann, [c.1911]. 4° (264 x 200mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece and 17 plates by Charles Robinson, illustrations, most coloured. (Some very light marginal staining.) Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edges gilt (stained). The title is blindstamped ''Presentation Copy.''

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    GBP 358

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    GBP 400 - GBP 600

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    SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) & Charles ROBINSON (illustrator). The Sensitive Plant, London: William Heinemann, [c.1911]. 4° (264 x 200mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece and 17 plates by Charles Robinson, illustrations, most coloured. (Some very light marginal staining.) Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edges gilt (stained). The title is blindstamped "Presentation Copy."

    With Laurence Housman's Princess Badoura ([London, n.d.], illustrated by Edmund Dulac, trade edition) and James Stephens' The Crock of Gold (London, 1926, illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie, ONE OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARIST). (3)

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