SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (forgery). Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley Introductory essay by Robert Browning London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1852.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (forgery). Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley Introductory essay by Robert Browning London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1852. 12 o (198 x 123 mm). Half-title and 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Internal tear mended on F12 crossing one line of text, some pale spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, top edge gilt, by F. Bedford (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : Thomas Gaisford (bookplate) sold Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 23 April 1890, lot 1768; purchased from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, 17 January 1973. FIRST EDITION. "An ingenious forgery perpetuated by an impostor, claiming to be the son of Lord Byron. Two genuine letters, which happened to be in Moxon's hands, were included. The fraud was discovered, to the chagrin of Browning and Moxon, who at once destroyed all obtainable copies of the book" (Granniss/Grolier Shelley 127); Ashley V, p.92; Wise Shelley , p.74.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (forgery). Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley Introductory essay by Robert Browning London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1852.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (forgery). Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley Introductory essay by Robert Browning London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1852. 12 o (198 x 123 mm). Half-title and 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Internal tear mended on F12 crossing one line of text, some pale spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, top edge gilt, by F. Bedford (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : Thomas Gaisford (bookplate) sold Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 23 April 1890, lot 1768; purchased from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, 17 January 1973. FIRST EDITION. "An ingenious forgery perpetuated by an impostor, claiming to be the son of Lord Byron. Two genuine letters, which happened to be in Moxon's hands, were included. The fraud was discovered, to the chagrin of Browning and Moxon, who at once destroyed all obtainable copies of the book" (Granniss/Grolier Shelley 127); Ashley V, p.92; Wise Shelley , p.74.
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