SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats . Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe and sold by Messrs. Gee & Bridges, 1829. 8 o (222 x 140 mm). (Some pale marginal dampstaining, bifolium of pp. 7-10 reinforced along fold.) 20th-century vellum. Provenance : Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) British biographer and essayist (bookplate; bequeathed to) -- Roger Senhouse (1899-1970), partner in publishing firm of Secker and Warburg (bookplate) sold at the sale of the Strachey Library, Property of Roger Senhouse, Sotheby's London, 18 October 1971, lot 819 -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 28 March 1973. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. According to the publisher's note: "The present Edition is an exact reprint (a few typographical errors only being corrected,) of the first edition of 'Adonais,'--dated 'Pisa, with the types of Didot, MDCCCXXI'" (see lot 106). Ashley V, p.79; Granniss/Grolier Shelley 72; Tinker 1902; Wise Shelley , p.61
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats . Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe and sold by Messrs. Gee & Bridges, 1829. 8 o (222 x 140 mm). (Some pale marginal dampstaining, bifolium of pp. 7-10 reinforced along fold.) 20th-century vellum. Provenance : Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) British biographer and essayist (bookplate; bequeathed to) -- Roger Senhouse (1899-1970), partner in publishing firm of Secker and Warburg (bookplate) sold at the sale of the Strachey Library, Property of Roger Senhouse, Sotheby's London, 18 October 1971, lot 819 -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 28 March 1973. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. According to the publisher's note: "The present Edition is an exact reprint (a few typographical errors only being corrected,) of the first edition of 'Adonais,'--dated 'Pisa, with the types of Didot, MDCCCXXI'" (see lot 106). Ashley V, p.79; Granniss/Grolier Shelley 72; Tinker 1902; Wise Shelley , p.61
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