SHELLEY PERCY BYSSHE Queen Mab

Sale 2508 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 650

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,200

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Queen Mab. 8vo, modern 1/2 blue morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt in compartments; contents show scattered minor foxing and fingersoiling with occasional pencil notations, title page and terminal leaf with offsetting from earlier binding, ownership signatures. London: Printed and published by R. Carlile, 1822

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first published edition, second issue, retaining both the 2pp. dedication "To Harriet" at end, and Clarke's imprint on the last leaf of text. 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.