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Auction archive: Lot number 254

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. The Revolt of Islam; a Poem, in Twelve Cantos. London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier...by B. M'Millan 1818, 8vo, olive brown morocco elaborately gilt, sides with a panel of repeated gilt tulip tools, spine with tulips in four co...

Auction 27.09.1995
27 Sep 1995
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,380
Auction archive: Lot number 254

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. The Revolt of Islam; a Poem, in Twelve Cantos. London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier...by B. M'Millan 1818, 8vo, olive brown morocco elaborately gilt, sides with a panel of repeated gilt tulip tools, spine with tulips in four co...

Auction 27.09.1995
27 Sep 1995
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,380
Beschreibung:

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. The Revolt of Islam; a Poem, in Twelve Cantos. London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier...by B. M'Millan 1818, 8vo, olive brown morocco elaborately gilt, sides with a panel of repeated gilt tulip tools, spine with tulips in four compartments, gilt-lettered, doublures and flyleaves of olive-green silk, inside gilt borders, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, some very slight wear to extremities, green cloth chemise and brown half morocco box (worn) , First Edition, Second Issue under this title, comprising sheets of Laon and Cythna (1818) with a new title and extensive revisions (a few copies are known with an 1817 title-page of The Revolt of Islam , i.e., the first issue), errata leaf [b2] bound in at end, a shorter blank leaf (?the final blank) inserted following title-leaf. Granniss 44; see Tinker 1895 and Hayward 227.

Auction archive: Lot number 254
Auction:
Datum:
27 Sep 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. The Revolt of Islam; a Poem, in Twelve Cantos. London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier...by B. M'Millan 1818, 8vo, olive brown morocco elaborately gilt, sides with a panel of repeated gilt tulip tools, spine with tulips in four compartments, gilt-lettered, doublures and flyleaves of olive-green silk, inside gilt borders, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, some very slight wear to extremities, green cloth chemise and brown half morocco box (worn) , First Edition, Second Issue under this title, comprising sheets of Laon and Cythna (1818) with a new title and extensive revisions (a few copies are known with an 1817 title-page of The Revolt of Islam , i.e., the first issue), errata leaf [b2] bound in at end, a shorter blank leaf (?the final blank) inserted following title-leaf. Granniss 44; see Tinker 1895 and Hayward 227.

Auction archive: Lot number 254
Auction:
Datum:
27 Sep 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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