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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley , edited by Roger Ingpen. London: G. Bell, 1914. 2 volumes, 8°. Original red cloth (hinges weak). New Edition. Ottoline Morrell's ownership signature dated 1916, with indications of re-reading, December 1920 to January 1921 and again in 1938 while in Sherwood Park Clinic, Tunbridge Wells. Copious annotation, notes and page references. Morrell had been devoted to Shelley since the 1890s. 'What is it that Shelley and all the fine spirits longed for and never found? We all strive and batter our wings against the cage of this life, passionately longing for some golden clime, some elixir that is seldom found' ( Early Memoirs, p.222). MEREDITH, George (1828-1909). The Poetical Works , edited by G. M. Trevelyan. London: Constable, 1912. 8°. Original red cloth gilt (chipped at spine). PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR, INSCRIBED 'O.M. from G. Jan: 1913'. Pencilled note by Morrell on flyleaf recording reading the volume at Garsington in December 1918, with her pencil marks against some poems and against titles in contents list. MAYNE, Ethel Colburn. Byron . London: Methuen, 1912. 2 volumes, 8°. Original blue cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in vol. I to Lady Ottoline Morrell 'Warm regards from Ethel Colburn Mayne, July 18, 1933.' With another book by the same author. HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Collected Poems . London: Macmillan, 1919. 8°. Photographed portrait frontispiece. Original green cloth. Ownership signature of Ottoline Morrell, dated 1921. Her pencil marks against some titles in contents and text, and names jotted at rear (Lytton, Tomlinson). (7)