SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Queen Mab, or The Palace of Prophecy. London: W. Medhurst, [ca. 1832].

32mo. (Some toning.) Publisher's brown pebbled cloth (lacking spine, rear endpaper chipped and partially detached, covers detached). Provenance: James Horne (ownership signature).

Only two institutional copies located. "Rare; not in Shelley Library" (Brick Row Bookshop, A Catalogue of Original Works by, and of Books Relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 56). Queen Mab is the first long-form poetical work written by Shelley. Following Shelley's death at sea in 1822 his father prohibited his widow Mary from republishing any of his son's works, resulting in numerous pirated copies of Shelley's poems to enter the black market. Due to the poem's controversial content Queen Mab was among the most popular of these pirated works.

[With:] SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Letter from Percy B. Shelley to T. Peacock, July, MDCCCXVI. London: The Essex House Press, 1901. 8vo. Original boards, printed labels to upper cover and spine. LIMITED EDITION, one of 45 unnumbered copies on paper of a total edition of 50.

[Also with:] ELLIS, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901), editor. A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Bernard Quartich, 1892. 4to. Publisher's cloth.

Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Queen Mab, or The Palace of Prophecy. London: W. Medhurst, [ca. 1832].

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Queen Mab, or The Palace of Prophecy. London: W. Medhurst, [ca. 1832].