12mo. Engraved title-page. ORIGINAL BOARDS uncut (old spine repairs, upper cover detached); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).

"First American edition," but really the second unauthorized edition, with a false imprint, believed to be published by William Benbow in London in 1821.  In "The 'First American' Queen Mab," George Goodspeed notes: "The suppression of Clark's edition of Queen Mab [see previous lot] left the field open to another publisher. Demand had been stimulated by the controversy and the source of supply had been cut off. Benbow was nothing if not an opportunist" (See The Colophon, New Graphic Series, No. 1, p.25-32, 1939).