Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems. Half-title. 8vo, dark green morocco, bordered with gilt and red scrollwork with interwoven flower and leaf design within gilt rules, spine with similar design in 6 compartments with gilt lettering in 2, joints rubbed with repairs, corners rubbed with light exposure, top edges gilt; wide gilt turn-ins (offsetting to facing endpapers), by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. London: C. and J. Ollier, 1819

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first edition. Concludes with Shelley's much-anthologized sonnet "Ozymandias" that first appeared in The Examiner one year earlier. Granniss 49; Tinker 1897.