Title: Ode to the West Wind Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe Place: Florence, Italy Publisher: The L-D Allen Press Date: [1951] Description: [11] pp. With hand-colored autumn leaves decorations throughout (including title page), engraved by Mallette Dean. (8vo) 26.5x20.3 cm. (10¼x8"), orange wrappers. One of 100 copies hand-set in Romanée type face, printed damp on English hand-made paper, cover paper from the Fabriano mill (not far from Florence), on the hand-press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen. “Perhaps the most charming edition of the Ode ever printed. One of the supreme achievements of The Allen Press” – Steven Corey (Special Collections Librarian at University of San Francisco) in his Allen Press updated checklist, p. 110. [Allen Press Biblio. 10A], (see pp. 33 and 110). Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and slight fading to wrappers, some small creases at corners and edges; very good. Item number: 272216
Title: Ode to the West Wind Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe Place: Florence, Italy Publisher: The L-D Allen Press Date: [1951] Description: [11] pp. With hand-colored autumn leaves decorations throughout (including title page), engraved by Mallette Dean. (8vo) 26.5x20.3 cm. (10¼x8"), orange wrappers. One of 100 copies hand-set in Romanée type face, printed damp on English hand-made paper, cover paper from the Fabriano mill (not far from Florence), on the hand-press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen. “Perhaps the most charming edition of the Ode ever printed. One of the supreme achievements of The Allen Press” – Steven Corey (Special Collections Librarian at University of San Francisco) in his Allen Press updated checklist, p. 110. [Allen Press Biblio. 10A], (see pp. 33 and 110). Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and slight fading to wrappers, some small creases at corners and edges; very good. Item number: 272216
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